The VM ISPF is a fairly old version, particularly the PDF part, so if you expect the VM product to have the latest ISPF features, you'll be disappointed. If you have applications that use ISPF as a display manager, most will work (obviously ones with embedded TSO or z/OS-only commands will need to be updated), although the applications may need to be relinked to get the right magic. You'll probably have to write some small execs to set up the ISPF environment, but that's no real surprise.
You'll probably need/want to unload the ISPF panel libraries and recreate them on VM, but you could probably get away with not doing it. The CMS Application Development Guide manual has a pretty good example of developing a CMS ISPF application (that manual really should get updated someday, esp since ISPF/VM is so hard to get these days). ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raymond Noal Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: z/OS + TSO + ISPF versus z/VM + CMS + ISPF Dear Lists: I am cross posting this question to the z/OS and z/VM lists due to the nature of my question, which is - Will z/OS, TSO ISPF panels and dialogs work under the z/VM, CMS ISPF program product? Is there any degree of compatibility between the two ISPF products? Is there any migration/conversion effort involved in going from one to the other? (primarily from the TSO to CMS based ISPF platform) I thank you in advance for your time and assistance. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978
