Utility Panel (Option 3)

Utility Panel (Option 3)

The ISPF Utility Panel in a mainframe environment is a tool that provides various utilities for managing datasets and performing file-related operations. This panel is widely used by developers, system administrators, and operators to handle tasks like creating, deleting, copying, renaming datasets, listing dataset details, and much more.

Navigation - Option 3 from ISPF Primary Option Menu (ISPF Home Menu).

Utility Panel Utility Panel

Most used options -

Below is a detailed breakdown of each option on the ISPF Utility Panel:

  • Option 1 (Library Utility): Compress or print data set. Print index listing. Print, rename, delete, browse, edit or view members.
  • Option 2 (Data Set Utility): Allocate, rename, delete, catalog, uncatalog, or display information of an entire data set
  • Option 3 (Move/Copy Utility): Move, or copy members or data sets.
  • Option 4 (Data Set List Utility): Print or display (to process) list of data set names. Print or display VTOC information.
  • Option 5 (Reset ISPF Statistics): Reset statistics for members of ISPF library.
  • Option 12 (SuperC Compare Utility - New Data Set): Compare data sets.
  • Option 13 (SuperCE Utility): Compare data sets Extended.
  • Option 14 (Search-For Utility): Search data sets for strings of data.
  • Option 15 (Extended Search-For Utility): Search data sets for strings of data Extended.
  • Option 17 (Unix data set utility): Print or display (to process) z/OS UNIX directory list.