IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility
The Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) is a software product for the z/OS (and the earlier MVS) that runs on IBM mainframes. ISPF is a dialog manager for interactive applications.
Releases
- System Productivity Facility (5668-009) for MVS/TSO and VM/CMS
ISPF Version 1 for MVS/TSO (5668-960)
- V1 (May 1982)
ISPF for MVS (5665-319), ISPF for SSX (5668-960), ISPF for VM (5664-282)
- V2R1 (1984)
- V2R1.2 (Jan 1985)
- V2R2 (Nov 1985)
- V2R3 (Aug 1987)
ISPF Version 3 for MVS (5685-054), ISPF for VM (5684-043)
- V3R1 (Jun 1989)
- V3R2 (Apr 1990)
- V3R3 (Jun 1991)
- V3R5 (Dec 1992)
- ISPF/PDF Version 3 Release 5 for MVS Workstation Platform for OS/2 feature
ISPF Version 4 for MVS (5655-032)
- V4R1 (Apr 1994)
- V4R2 (Jun 1995)
- V4R2.1 (Dec 1996)
Services
- Dialog Manager (DM)
- Program Development Facility (ISPF/PDF)
- Software Configuration Library Manager (SCLM)
- Client/Server component (ISPF Client/Server)
Publications
- Howard Fosdick: Using IBM's ISPF Dialog Manager: Under MVS, VM, and VSE - Van Nostrand Reinhold 1987, ISBN 0-442-22626-8
- Joseph A. Azevedo: ISPF: The Strategic Dialog Manager - McGraw-Hill 1989, ISBN 0-07-002673-4
- Doug Lowe: MVS TSO - Part 1: Concepts and ISPF - Murach 1991, ISBN 0-911625-56-9
- Kurt Bosler: MVS TSO/ISPF - McGraw-Hill 1993, ISBN 0-07-006565-9
- Redbooks
- GG24-4407: Version 4 of ISPF and SCLM An Implementation Guide
- SG24-4843: Using ISPF/SCLM for Automated and Controlled Software Development