ISPF Programmer’s Guide

12Tables – Create and edit

Here you will learn how to create, edit and view ISPF tables. The table service of ISPF provides the ability to create tables, to edit and to use them for your daily work. A row in the ISPF table consists of columns that are named by ISPF variables. Each line can be addressed using ISPF table service commands. After carrying out such a command, the names of the variables in the manufacturing procedure are known.

12.1Locations for tables

Tables can be created either temporarily or permanently. A temporary table only exists in virtual memory. It cannot be saved in a permanent data set.

For processing, the entire table always resides in virtual memory. This means that an ISPF table is limited in its size by the available ...