Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)

Browsing a Dataset

If you select the Browse mode on the View Entry Panel, ISPF Interactive System Productivity Facility displays either a member selection list or a Browse data display. If you specify a volume serial on the View Entry Panel, you can browse a single volume of a non-SMS, multi-volume dataset.

Each character in the data that cannot be displayed is changed on the display to either a period or a character that you have specified. Using the Display command, you can specify if printer carriage-control characters are to be treated as part of the data displayed.

During Browse, four-way scrolling is available through the scroll commands. You can also use Find and Locate commands to scroll to a particular character string, line number, or symbolic label.

Whenever you enter a command, ISPF Interactive System Productivity Facility highlights the character string.

To end Browse data display, use the End command. This will return you to the previous panel which is either a member list display or the View Entry panel. If a member list is displayed, the name of the member you just browsed is at the top of the list. You can select another member from the list or enter the End command again to return to the View Entry panel.