Starting the ISPF interface

The XBM task must be fully initialized before it can communicate with the ISPF interface.

Related topic

Starting-the-XBM-subsystem

To invoke the ISPF interface, enter one of the following TSO commands.

  • %XBMISPF 'optionsMember'
  • EXEC 'libraryName(XBMISPF)' 'optionsMember'

Important

The second command invokes XBMISPF explicitly from a library. For either command, specifying the options member is optional.


 

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