Step 6—Connect tablesONLINE to ISPF

In order for tablesONLINE/ISPF to be operational, allocate the datasets listed in Table 4 to the appropriate files.

Table 4. ISPF datasets

Dataset name

Allocated to

your.prefix.TBASE.LOAD

ISPLLIB or STEPLIB

your.prefix.TBASE.PANELS

ISPPLIB

your.prefix.TBASE.SKELETON

ISPSLIB

your.prefix.TBASE.MESSAGES

ISPMLIB

your.prefix.TBASE.TABLE

ISPTLIB

your.prefix.TBASE.CLIST

SYSPROC

The tablesONLINE/ISPF COBOL programs are compiled with COBOL for z/OS. The LE runtime modules must be available to the ISPF environment through an allocation, through the LINKLIST, or through the LPA.

These allocations may be done in different ways depending on your ISPF environment:

  • The CLIST your.prefix.CLIST(TBONLINE) may be customized. Execution of this CLIST as part of the user’s TSO logon PROC will set the environment for the tablesONLINE option to be selected.
  • The datasets may be allocated as part of the general TSO logon CLIST.
  • The datasets may be allocated as part of the other dataset allocations in a TSO logon PROC.
  • Remove any allocations based on previous versions of tableBASE.

Select the method best suited to your installation and carry out the steps needed to install, using the selected method. tableBASE does MVS LOADs under TBOL/ISPF. This means that the STEPLIB in use at tableBASE initialization determines which tableBASE modules are loaded. Unless a dynamic STEPLIB product is available, multiple versions of tableBASE cannot be supported during an ISPF session.