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ISPF

In computing, Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) is a software product for many historic IBM mainframe operating systems and currently the z/OS and z/VM operating systems that run on IBM mainframes. It includes a screen editor, the user interface of which was emulated by some microcomputer editors sold commercially starting in the late…

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History

SVSMVSStructured programmingCMSVM/SP
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ISPF as a user interface development environment

Text-based user interfacesHLASMCOBOLPL/ICLIST
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PC use

DOSOS/2WindowsUnixEZ-VU
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Overview

ComputingZ/OSZ/VMIBM mainframesScreen editor
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ISPF/PDF interactive tools

ISPF as a user interface development environment

Editor

Customization

PC use

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ISPF

Nodes48
Edges47
Triples68
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.041667
Components1

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ISPF

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related to PC use · 23
ISPF → DOS, DOS PCs, EZ-VU, Freeware ISPF-style, IBM, In, Inc, ISPF Workstation Agent, Many, OS, OS/2, PCs, REXX, SPF/SE, SPFlite, This, Tritus, Tritus SPF, TSPF, Unix
related to history · 16
ISPF → An, CMS, Development Facility, IBM, In, Interactive System Productivity Facility, Interactive System Productivity Facility/Program, ISPF/PDF, MVS, SPF, Structured Programming Facility, SVS, System Productivity Facility, Virtual Machine Facility/370 Release, VM/SP, VSE/AF
related to Customization · 10
ISPF → Each, Even, F1, It, Most, PC, PCs, Some, These, User
related to ISPF/PDF interactive tools · 5
ISPF → OS, Primary Option Menu, Such, TSO, When
related to ISPF as a user interface development environment · 4
ISPF → Most, See Text-based, Similarly, Underlying ISPF/PDF
related to External links · 3
ISPF → Deprecated, IBMIBM, OS

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os interface ibm user data editor system set mainframe tools use sets program facility many used run pdf introduced members

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
HLASMinstance ofwriting in either compiled languages0.80text
Cinstance ofwriting in either compiled languages0.80text
COBOLinstance ofwriting in either compiled languages0.80text
PL/Iinstance ofwriting in either compiled languages0.80text
or interpreted languages such as CLISTinstance ofwriting in either compiled languages0.80text
REXXinstance ofwriting in either compiled languages0.80text
ooRexxinstance ofwriting in either compiled languages0.80text
ISPFrelated to CustomizationSome0.60section
ISPFrelated to CustomizationIt0.60section
ISPFrelated to CustomizationThese0.60section
ISPFrelated to CustomizationEach0.60section
ISPFrelated to CustomizationUser0.60section

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