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ISPF SCREENS – THE CASE FOR NEW ONES

Let’s face it: IBM doesn’t appear to have put a whole lot of thought

or planning into its ISPF screens for RACF. Installation data input is

free-format, so you’ve got to count how far along you are if you want

to have the List User, List Group, List Dataset, etc looking correct.

And IBM, while we’re at it, what possessed you to change the

installation data format for all of these items? I mean, 45 characters per

line for groups, 50 for users, 79 for datasets and general resource

profiles, etc – a little standardization would’ve been more convenient.

But be that as it may, we’re stuck with IBM’s ISPF screens. Or are we?

If your Technical Support team is of sufficient quality (and I’m betting

that it is) and of sufficient intestinal fortitude, new ISPF screens can

be designed which will allow for better, more logical, and more

efficient input of RACF data by your administrative team. This can

keep your installation data formats up to date without having to resort

to JCL every time you want to add or change a user, group, or dataset

profile.

I’m not going to go into the specific coding requirements of the ISPF

screens here for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, I’m not a

programmer capable of creating such code. Second, when it comes

right down to it, each site must come up with the screens which will

fit their desired use of the installation data field – formatting and

content issues are quite individual and must conform to your own

security requirements. Finally, Technical Support people love a good

challenge. Developing new ISPF screens for RACF, with sufficient

controls to ensure security of data and continuity of naming standards,

will give them quite a lot of enjoyment.

“HERE’S YOUR LPAR – WHERE ARE THE DOUGHNUTS?”

Well, you’ve got the JCL all neat and tidy in your text files on your PC.

You’ve developed all your group structures, recreated your CICS

region profiles, copied the dataset profiles, made all new user IDs, all

tucked away in ASCII character sets on your hard drive. You’ve spent

a lot of time and effort getting this ready. But it’s not doing you much

good in a Windows environment. You need a test LPAR to do the

initial builds and tests.

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