ISPF
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In computing, Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) is a software for the IBM mainframes running z/OS operating system. It includes a screen editor, the user interface of which was emulated by some microcomputer editors sold commercially starting in the late 1980s, including SPFPC.
ISPF primarily provides an IBM 3270 terminal interface with a set of panels. Each panel may include menus and dialogs to run tools on the underlying Time Sharing Option (TSO). ISPF is frequently used to manipulate z/OS data sets via its Product Development Facility (ISPF/PDF).
ISPF is user-extensible and it is often used as an application program interface. Many vendors have created products for MVS that use the ISPF interface.
An early version was called merely SPF and introduced in MVS system. Originally this stood for Structured Programming Facility, since it was introduced about the same time as structured programming concepts, but later the name was changed to System Productivity Facility.
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- Time Sharing Option (TSO), usually used to run ISPF
