A810: Developing Dialog Manager Applications in z/OS

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Developing Dialog Manager Applications in z/OS - Topical Outline

Day One

Introduction to Dialog Manager
    Dialog components
    Dialog variables
    Panel definitions
    Data set requirements
    Invoking Dialog Manager services from a CLIST or Exec
    Invoking Dialog Manager services from a program
    Dialog Testing
       Computer Exercise: Setting up for Dialog Manager

Panel Definitions
    The LIBDEF Service
    User libraries
    Defining panels
    Headers and sections in a panel definition
    Panel design
    Attribute characters
    Panel definition - the )BODY section
    The )END section
    Panel layout concerns
    DISPLAY services
       Computer Exercise: Defining Panels

Dialog Variables and pools
    Applications
    Variable Pools
    Function pools for execs and CLISTs
    The shared pool
    The application profile pool
    Z variables
    The system profile pool
    Variable pools relationships
    System variables
    System Symbols
    Variable services: VGET, VPUT, VERASE

Brief TSO Review
Brief REXX Review
Brief CLIST Review

Common notes
    Running Dialogs from DSLIST
       Computer Exercise The Case Study, Backup and Restore Functions

Day Two

Panel processing and messages
    Test and Trace modes
    Snapshot - quick review
    Panel processing statements
    Panel processing built-in functions
    Control variables
    Messages
    Message format
    Message processing
    Message services
       Computer Exercise: The Case Study: Display an Individual Record

Basic Library Access services
    Placeholder variables
    DATAIDs
    LMINIT
    LMOPEN
    LMGET
    LMPUT
    LMCLOSE
    LMFREE
       Computer Exercise: The Case Study, Part 2, Second Stage: File I/O

Pop-up windows
    Windows
    Primary and active wiondows
    ADDPOP service
    Window frames
    Defining panels with windows
    Window fit
    REMPOP service
    Interacting with pop-ups
    Messages and windows
       Computer Exercise: The Case Study, Third Stage: Windows

Scrollable fields
    Design issues
    Implementing scrollable fields
    The )FIELD section
    Scrollable Fields: an example

Day Three

Menus and Debugging
    Command Processing
    Jump function processing
    Menus
    The SELECT service
    Syntax for TRANS and TRUNC in a menu
    Handling lower level requests
    Primary option menus
    Master application menus
    Menus, panels, and SELECT
    Dialog Test tracing services
       Computer Exercise: The Case Study, Add Menu Hierarchy

Some new services and tutorials
    Edit Models
    The CONTROL service
    Browse, Edit, and View services
    Browse, Edit, and View: working with z/OS UNIX files
    Edit recovery interface
    Tutorials
       Computer Exercise: The Case Study: Add Tutorials and Browse Feature

Day Four

ISPF Tables
    Table types
    Tables and keys
    Defining tables - TBCREATE
    Row variables
    Extension variables
    Working with tables
    Working with rows
       Computer Exercise: The Case Study: Add A Table

Table Display services
    Panels for table displays
    The )ATTR section for table display panels
    The )BODY section for table display panels
    The )MODEL section for table display panels
    The TBDISPL service
    Processing selected rows
    Table display variables
    TBSARG and TBSCAN
    Dialog Test and tables
       Computer Exercise: The Case Study: Processing Selected Rows

The ISPF Table Utility
    Introduction to the Table Utility
    Table List Formats
    Editing and Browsing Tables
    Re-Structuring The Table Display
    Sorting Tables
    Exporting and Importing Tables
    Table Utility Options
        Computer Exercise: Using the Table Utility

File Tailoring services
    The file tailoring process
    Skeletons
    File tailoring services - FTOPEN, FTINCL, FTCLOSE, FTERASE
       Computer Exercise: The Case Study: File Tailoring

Day Five

More Library Access Services
   LMCOPY, LMMOVE, LMPRINT, LMRENAME, LMERASE
   Library access services to work with true libraries: LMCOMP,
      LMMFIND, LMMREN, LMMREP, LMMADD, LMMDEL, LMMSTATS,
      LMMLIST, LMMDISP, MEMLIST
   Library access services to work with lists of data sets: LMDINIT,
      LMDFREE, LMDLIST, LMDDISP

Miscellaneous Topics
    Panel preprocessing
    Dialog Test: the DTEST command
    Obtaining data set information: QLIBDEF, QBASELIB, DSINFO
    Dialog Manager and commands
    Command tables
    Creating command tables
    Using command tables
       Computer Exercise: Adding a User Command

Introduction to Common User Access (CUA)
    The CUA standard
    CUA panel formats
    Using Action Bars
    Working with pull-down menus
    Creating action bars using panel language
       Computer Exercise: Creating Action Bars Using Panel Language

Keylists
    Keylists
    Dialog Tag Language (DTL)
    Defining keylists
    The ISPDTLC utility
    Using keylists
       Computer Exercise: Creating a Keylist

Final Topics
   Using Compiled Languages for Dialogs
   Tradeoffs
   Installing an ISPF Application
   Using ISPSTART
   Read-Only Profile Pool Extensions
   Optional Exercise:
   The Case Study: Table to Sequential File [and Back]

Course objectives
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