IBM products (option 9)

Option 9 provides an interface to other IBM® program development products. It displays a panel that lists other IBM products that are supported as ISPF dialogs, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Additional IBM Program Development Products Panel (ISRDIIS)

   Menu  Utilities  Compilers  Options  Status  Help
 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
 │                Additional IBM Program Development Products                  │
 │ Option ===>                                                                 │
 │                                                                             │
 │ 3  INFOMAN   Tivoli Information Management for z/OS                         │
 │ 4  COBOL/SF  COBOL Structuring Facility                                     │
 │ 6  SDF II    Screen Definition Facility II - Editors and Utilities          │
 │ 7  SDF II-P  Screen Definition Facility II - Prototype                      │
 │                                                                             │
 │                                                                             │
 │                                                                             │
 │                                                                             │
 │                                                                             │
 │  F1=Help        F2=Split       F3=Exit        F7=Backward    F8=Forward     │
 │  F9=Swap       F10=Actions    F12=Cancel                                    │
 └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
      Enter X to Terminate using Log/List defaults



  F1=Help      F2=Split     F3=Exit      F7=Backward  F8=Forward   F9=Swap
 F10=Actions  F12=Cancel

When you select one of these products, ISPF tries to call it. However, the only way ISPF can determine whether a product is installed and available is to check for the existence of a single product-related panel in the panel library concatenation. No other check is made to ensure that the product is correctly installed or that it is completely available to you.

If the product is not installed or is unavailable, ISPF displays an informational panel that describes the product and shows how to obtain more information.

The names of the products on this panel are point-and-shoot fields. For more information on point-and-shoot fields, see the ISPF User Interface topic in the z/OS ISPF User's Guide Vol I.