Natural ISPF is an application development tool and provides a full range of application programming and system programming facilities in any environment that includes Natural.

This documentation is intended for the user of Natural ISPF and contains a full description of the Natural ISPF user interface and features. For a description of additional programming facilities (Macro Facility, Incore Database, Open NSPF, Natural ISPF API), consult the Natural ISPF Programmer's Guide.

Natural ISPF object types are grouped according to their relevant operating environment: not all of these may be relevant to you, depending on the operating platform and subsystems installed at your site. For example, if the file management system CA Panvalet is not installed at your site, the section entitled CA Panvalet Members is not relevant to you.

Examples in this Documentation

This documentation contains a large volume of information, much of which is illustrated by examples. Many examples of commands are contained in the section that describes the various object types (for example LIST), but other examples may appear elsewhere.

Additionally, the Examples Library supplied on the Natural ISPF installation medium contains example programs, macros and command scripts that may be useful to your work. To see an overview of these examples, simply issue the command from any Natural ISPF screen:

HELP EXAMPLES