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ISPF is a programmers text editing environment for mainframe systems from IBM, while the editor itself has never been ported to any of the smaller systems the company made a number of tools that allowed people to work with the editor from PC based computers. Early versions were basically 3270-type terminal emulators that connected to a mainframe via a serial connection and offered some scripts to help with integration. Later a simple client server of sorts was offered by giving the terminal emulators simple file communication capabilities, a MVS program called IND$FILE handled file transfers and later you could also use the FTPB protocol.
ISPF clones
- Hybrid Editor XE - Runs on OS/2, DOS, AIX and more systems.
OS/2 editors that offer some ISPF compatibility
- Preditor/2 -ISPF keyboard mappings, window layout and more.
License and availability
- Discontinued commercial software, ISPF itself is still maintained for mainframe system but the ISPF Client/Server development has been discontinued although it is still supplied with z/OS systems.