View Entry Panel fields

The "ISPF Libraries and Data Sets" topic of the z/OS ISPF User's Guide Vol I contains information about all the fields on the View Entry Panel except these:

Initial Macro

You can specify an Edit macro to be processed before you begin viewing your sequential data set or any member of a partitioned data set. This initial macro enables you to set up a particular environment for the View session you are beginning.

If you leave the Initial Macro field blank and your Edit profile includes an initial macro specification, the initial macro from your Edit profile is processed.

If you want to suppress the processing of an initial macro in your Edit profile, enter NONE in the Initial Macro field.

Profile Name

You can specify a profile name to override the default Edit profile.

Format Name

Contains the name of a format definition, which is used to view or browse a formatted data set.

Browse Mode

Specifies that you want to browse the data set using the Browse function. This function is useful for large data sets and data sets that are formatted RECFM=U.

Confirm Cancel/Move/Replace

Specifies that you want ISPF to display a confirmation panel whenever you issue a Cancel, Move, or Replace command.

Mixed Mode

Specifies that you want to view or browse unformatted data that contains both EBCDIC and DBCS characters.

View on Workstation

Specifies that you want to view the data on your workstation. This option requires a workstation connection to be used.

Warn on First Data Change

Specifies that you want ISPF to warn you that changes cannot be saved in View. The warning is displayed when the first data change is made.

Record Length

Can be used when browsing a z/OS® UNIX file. The numeric value entered in this field is used by ISPF to display the data in the file as fixed-length records, rather than using the newline character to delimit each record. This is useful for browsing files which would otherwise have very large records if the newline character is used as the record delimiter.

Data Encoding

You can use this option to select whether to view data as ASCII (CCSID 819) or UTF-8 (CCSID 1208). You can also specify this option when creating a new file, data set, or member containing ASCII or UTF-8 data. When you select a value for this option, the editor uses the selected CCSID in converting the data to the CCSID for the terminal.

For ASCII or UTF-8 z/OS UNIX files, the editor breaks up data into records using the ASCII linefeed character (X'0A') and the ASCII carriage return character (X'0D') as the record delimiter. The linefeed and carriage return characters are removed from the data loaded into the editor, but written back to the file when the data is saved.

It is not necessary to use the Data Encoding option when the z/OS UNIX file is tagged with a CCSID of 819 or 1208. If ISPF detects the file is tagged with CCSID 819 or 1208, it converts the data from ASCII or UTF-8 to the CCSID of the terminal. When the file is saved, ISPF ensures the file is tagged with a CCSID of 819 or 1208.