ISPF Productivity Tool for z/OS

Features
System requirements

Centralized, object-oriented control center with consolidated batch and online functionality

IBM® ISPF Productivity Tool for z/OS® provides an integrated front end to Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF), extending batch and online capabilities for PDS and PDSE data sets. Enhanced functionality, with automatic PDS compression and directory expansion, helps to improve productivity and efficiencies. The tool uses advanced functions, including browse, edit, view and member lists, to locate volumes, data sets, members and text.

ISPF Productivity Tool for z/OS improves productivity:

Extends ISPF standard functions to other objects, including standard data sets.
Expands functions for list options, including powerful search capabilities that allow you to search through multiple members or libraries with quick results.
Provides set of command shortcuts that can be entered from a panel.
Allows more extensive search capabilities for faster, more intuitive results.
Provides facilities for prompting actions upon cursor selection.

Extends ISPF standard functions to other objects

Object types include Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) files, IBM z/OS UNIX® System Services files, PC files, IBM DB2® tables, in addition to other object classes.
Supports files stored in source-code library systems, such as IBM Software Configuration and Library Manager (SCLM), CA-Librarian and CA-Panvalet.
Allows availability of extended functions while you manage your source code.

Expands functions for list options

List options include: Member List option, the DSLIST option and a new powerful object browser, OLIST.
Can contain references to a wide variety of object classes in the same list, where they can be edited, viewed or browsed using a single command from a single screen.
Resulting member, data set and object lists can become the platform, where you are able to perform many tasks without navigating to other utilities.

Provides set of command shortcuts

Shortcut names are intentionally intuitive.
Access most ISPF Productivity Tool functions on the spot.
Shortcut names can be either disabled or changed by the user to avoid naming conflicts.