Preface

Since approximately 1980, I worked many times with the Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) (a subsystem of z/OS driven by TSO) during my activities as external advisor, programmer and lecturer in the IBM host. As the name already says, this subsystem is designed to help the users in the IBM Mainframe host environment to a higher productivity at their work in IBM z/OS. I can promise you, ISPF fulfils this task very well.

As soon as I was more familiar with ISPF and so had outgrown to the beginners stage, the desire emerged in me to automate and accelerate some recurring operational sequences if possible. I have looked around myself on the book market which book can support me with the realization of the desire on a high level ...

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