Saturday, January 5, 2008

ISPF Panels Almost Finalized

I think I'm finished tinkering with the appearance of the ISPF member display panels. The 80-column panel was tough, because there just isn't enough room to show all the information at one time that I'd like. But I fooled with it enough to create something that I think will work.

Earlier versions of the utility only showed the statistics information for source datasets but not for load libraries. I found some documentation that may explain how to decode this information for load modules. If so, I hope to be able to display this information for load libraries.

One idea I'm thinking about is whether to allow users to change the statistics information for source-type pds members. There is an ISPF service that will do this. All I have to do is display the statistics data in input fields and allow the user to change it. But I'm not sure yet if I want to do that. One idea would be to provide a pull-down menu at the top of the panel for Options. One of the options could be to display the statistics data in input or display-only fields. I've also thought of a couple of other options that might be useful.

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