Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)

Settings for ISPF Library

To name an ISPF Interactive System Productivity Facility library, you must specify at least a project, group, and type. Following is a discussion on the fields:

• Project. The common identifier for all ISPF Interactive System Productivity Facility libraries belonging to the same programming project is Project. This name must be your user ID unless you are using a specific project name that has been predefined in the MVS master catalog.
• Group. The identifier for a particular set of ISPF Interactive System Productivity Facility libraries, the level of the libraries within the library hierarchy, is Group.
• Type. The identifier for the type of information in the ISPF Interactive System Productivity Facility library, such as PL/1, SCRIPT, or PANELS, is Type.
• Member. A member selection list, also called a member list, is initially an alphabetic list of the members of an ISPF Interactive System Productivity Facility library to a TSO-partitioned dataset.
• Each component of the library name can be up to eight alphanumeric or national characters. The first one must be alphabetic.