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• - A detailed overview of ISPF use, with screen shots and little site-specific information. From the Northeast Regional Data Center headquartered at the University of Florida.
  
• - How to create and edit data files in ISPF. Non-site specific.
  
• - Pinnacle Consulting Group's starter set of REXX execs to implement Dynamic ISPF. Other articles and SHARE presentations are also included.
  
• - David Alcock's collection of information on the ISPF Editor, including lists of similar editors for other platforms, as well as XEDIT-like editors.
  
• - ISPF for most UNIX platforms from The Workstation Group.
  
• - The Software Configuration and Library Manager (SCLM) runs on and comes with ISPF; related software is also available. SCLM provides application change control.
  
• - SPF/SE is a Windows workstation implementation of the PDF component, the user interface, of z/OS ISPF.
  
• - A summary of the most commonly-used PF keys and command-line and in-line commands within the ISPF editor by author Alan Gauld.
  
• - Although some information is site-specific, a useful introduction to using ISPF. From Administrative Computing Services at North Carolina State University.
  
• - Mostly ISPF utilities and samples, including the TASID system monitor, written by IBM's Doug Nadel.
  
• - Michael F. Price's MIS 3013 ISPF student guide. Also covers TSO logon and IOF, plus a small mainframe glossary.
  
• - How to perform common mainframe tasks from ISPF, mostly non-site specific.
  
• - Covers initial setup instructions and ISPF features introduced in the 1990s. From the University of Pennsylvania's Information Systems and Computing (Penn Computing).
  
• - A brief description and contact information for those interested in participating in SHARE's volunteer work on ISPF and/or SCLM. Also includes a few ISPF links.
  
• - Gilbert Saint-Flour's detailed discussion of transferring files between mainframe and workstation (PC) using the Client/Server component included in ISPF.
  
• - Dynamic ISPF can be used to sharply reduce the number of datasets in the TSO LOGON Proc. DISS provides a place to begin with Dynamic ISPF.
  
• - Java-based ftp client that looks like ISPF but uses ftp to provide workstation access to mainframe files and JES2/JES3, including batch job submission and output. Currently in Beta, available free.
  
• - Isogon software that adds features to ISPF, as welling as making it easier to use existing ISPF functionality.
  
• - An index page to the 6 page introduction to ISPF, graphically showing the screens. Each is an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file on this U.S. Environmental Protection Agency site.
  
• - z/Journal article by Doug Nagel of IBM. Describes the ISPVCALL unsupported utility as a tool for debugging ISPF applications.
  
• - Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQs) and common scenarios in the ISPF/TSO environment, with answers.