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hi,all, I'm a new TSO$ISPF student,i found there are some fields not initialized or gaven value in panel, but if i issued the panel, the fields will have the value,my question is how can i find where the field's value comes from? is it from program or higher level which displayed the panel? thanks,

Remember that every named field in your panel corresponds to a variable in the driver code.

So, suppose your panel has a field named FOO. If a Rexx driver script contains

then the panel will be displayed with "BAR" in field FOO.

hi Akatsukamin,i got it, but another confuse was raised in my mind, u used 'display panel' in the example, how about to use 'select panel' instead? i just went through the ISPF panel service, but still not clear about 'display panel' and 'select panel', is that different 'select panel' uses 'CMD' to execute program in proc?

see here for the basics...
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ ... 1028105440
pretty old, but still very useful for learning