Changing Your Customization Dialog Environment

You can invoke the Settings function from the Customization Dialog Primary Menu or from the Menu pull-down of the Policy Database Selection panel.

The first three options in the Customization Dialog Settings Menu panel (see Figure 1) allow you to change the customization dialog environment for your user ID. This is a usability function only and has no effect on the policy database contents.

Figure 1. SA z/OS Customization Dialog Settings Menu

   MENU  HELP                                                                   
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 AOFGCUST                          Settings Menu                                
 Option ===>                                                                    
                                                                                
 The following options apply only to your userid:                               
                                                                                
   1 Alias           Define alias for standard commands                         
   2 Display         Define display characteristics                             
   3 Message         Define message and logging options                         
   4 Convert         Define policy database conversion options                  
   5 Color           Define color for inherited class values                    
                                                                                
                                                                                
 The following options can be made available to all SA z/OS users:              
                                                                                
  10 Policy          Modify SA z/OS policy definitions                          
  11 Dsnames         Define SA z/OS data set names                              
  12 Workdsn         Define ISPF temporary data sets for batch build            
  13 JobStep         Define JOB and EXEC statement for batch build

Alias

This option allows you to change commands and command abbreviations that can be entered on the command line or action column in the customization dialog.

Display

This option allows you to change the line spacing for lists that appear in the customization dialog.

Message

This option allows you to specify the level of detail in the messages you receive when you run various customization dialog options or batch jobs, and whether the messages are written to the ISPF log.

Furthermore you can enable additional checking during configuration build for Processor Operations definitions. All messages are shown on the In-progress panel of the build and appear in the build report. If the additional checking is disabled, the following information is written to the build report:

Note........ Checking for Processor Operations definitions is suppressed.

These settings are stored in the ISPF application profile. To have them available for batch processing (build or migration), make sure that your ISPF profile data set is allocated to the table library, DDname: AOFTLIB, as described in Defining Data Sets for Batch Processing.

Convert

This option lets you specify whether SA z/OS should create an automation name for an ApplicationGroup resource during the very first conversion of a policy database. See Initial Policy Database Conversion for more information.

Color

This option allows you to specify the color and reverse video option that is used to display inherited class values.

Policy

See Extending Policy Definitions;

Dsnames

See Defining Data Sets for Batch Processing;

Workdsn

See Defining ISPF Temporary Data Sets for Batch Build;