Setting DELTA IMS default ISPF values

After you install the TSO/ISPF panel and messages members for DELTA IMS, you may want to review and modify the default ISPF values for the variables that the product uses.

If any of these values are incorrect, DELTA IMS will prompt you for new values the first time that you invoke the online interface. You do not have to modify these values now; you can wait until an error is detected and correct it at that time. However, if several users are accessing the TSO/ISPF panels, each user must make the corrections when invoking the online interface.

DELTA IMS ISPF panel defaults

Variable	Description
&DLA4DATE	An eight-character, current date value. This value sets the last-modified or last-executed date within the product. As distributed, this date value uses the mm/dd/yy format; however, you can change the format to yy/mm/dd, dd/mm/yy, and so on.
&DLA4IMD	A four-character default IMSID value. As distributed, the default value is IMSA.
&DLA4PDS	The name of the partitioned data set that will store DELTA Lists. You can specify up to 44 characters.
&DLA4LIB	The product options load library data set name. This load library will store various product options and parameters that are used by the ISPF utilities and the BMCLINK region task. DLALIB is the recommended library name. You can specify up to 44 characters.
&DLA4ALM	An option to specify whether an alarm should sound when ISPF messages are issued. Valid values are YES or NO.
&DLA4BRV	An option to specify a work volume if the site does not support VIO- or SYSDA-type work file allocations. The default for most sites is a null value, &Z.
&DLA4BRU	An option to specify the generic unit name for temporary work file data sets. The default value for most sites is VIO.

The INIT section of ISPF panel DLAPI@00 contains several important default data set specifications.

You can override the date format, &DLA4DATE, and the data set names that are shown in the following figure.

ISPF profile defaults for DELTA IMS

/* ---------------------------------- /* USER-MODIFIABLE DEFAULTS */
&DLA4ALM = YES                        /* ISPF MSGS .ALARM=YES/NO  */
&DLA4DATE = '&ZMONTH/&ZDAY/&ZYEAR'    /* DELTA IMS LAST-MOD DATE  */
                                      /*                          */
IF (&DLA4IMD = &Z)                    /*                          */
  &DLA4IMD = 'IMSA'                   /* DEFAULT IMSID VALUE      */
                                      /*                          */
&DLA4BRU = 'VIO'                      /* BROWSE WORK FILE UNIT    */
&DLA4BRV = &Z                         /* BROWSE WORK FILE VOLSER  */
                                      /*                          */
IF (&DLA4PDS = &Z)                    /*                          */
  &DLA4PDS = 'BMCNODE.DELTAPDS'       /* DELTA LIST PDS LIBRARY   */
                                      /*                          */
IF (&DLA4LIB = &Z)                    /*                          */
  &DLA4LIB = 'BMCNODE.DLA.LOAD        /* GLOBAL-PARMS LOADLIB     */
/* -------------------------------------------------------------- */

For example, if you want to format dates as yy/mm/dd, modify the &DLA4DATE assignment statement as follows:

&DLA4DATE = '&ZYEAR/&ZMONTH/ZDAY'  /*DELTA IMS LAST-MOD DATE*/

If your IMSID is PROD instead of the IBM-distributed default, you can modify the &DLA4IMD assignment as follows:

&DLA4IMD  = 'PROD'                /*DEFAULT IMSID VALUE*/

Within the limits of ISPF panel syntax, you can modify the above assignment statements to suit the environment at your site.

Once you have updated your logon procedure (proc), log off ISPF and log back on.

Related topic

Adding DELTA IMS to TSO/ISPF

Setting DELTA IMS default ISPF values

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