The Primary Option Menu action bar choices function as follows:
- Menu
- This choice is available from most panels within ISPF. It displays
many of the options listed on the Primary Option Menu panel. See the
topic about the Primary Option Menu in the z/OS V2R2 ISPF User's Guide Vol II for
details on each choice.
- Utilities
- This choice is available from most panels within ISPF. It displays
the options listed on the Utility Selection panel (Option 3). See
the topic about the Primary Option Menu in the z/OS V2R2 ISPF User's Guide Vol II for
details on each choice.
- Compilers
- The Compilers pull-down provides access to the foreground and
background compilers listed under options 4 and 5, as well as the
ISPPREP (Preprocessed Panel) utility and the ISPDTLC (Dialog Tag Language
Conversion) utility.
- Options
- The Options pull-down provides access to many ISPF settings, including
CUA attributes and colors, keylists, and point-and-shoot fields, and
the Dialog Test Application ID pop-up. See the topic about Settings
(Option 0) in the z/OS V2R2 ISPF User's Guide Vol II for
details on each choice.
- Status
- The Status pull-down enables you to control what is displayed
in the status area of the Primary Option Menu.
Note: The current
setting is shown as an unavailable choice. That is, in non-GUI mode
it is colored blue (the default) with an asterisk as the first digit
of the selection number. In GUI mode, the choice is grayed.
See
the topic about the status area on the Primary Option Menu in the z/OS V2R2 ISPF User's Guide Vol II for
more information about using these choices to tailor the status area.
- Help
- The Help pull-down provides access to the online help and tutorial
topics for the main ISPF options.