To navigate the ISPF dialog, you perform a combination of these
actions:
- Select menu options
- Enter line actions (one- to three-letter commands) next to items
on a list panel
- Enter primary commands on the command line
- Press function keys
Menu shortcuts: To bypass intermediate
menus, you can enter on the command line a sequence of menu option
numbers separated by periods. To refer to a primary menu option from
any panel, prefix the option number with an equal sign (=). For example,
entering =4.1 on the command line of
any panel is equivalent to returning to the primary option menu, selecting
option 4, and then selecting option 1 from the subsequent menu.
At any point, you can find out what actions are available to you:
- To display a pop-up menu of available line actions, enter / (a forward slash) next to an item
on a list panel.
- To get help on the available commands, open the menu, and then select .
- To get help on the available function keys, open the menu, and then select .