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 sub-system is designed to help users in the IBM Mainframe host environment to develop a higher productivity 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. However, ...

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