Paul:
I think that was because that way back when IBM had a TSO product
called PCF. If memory serves me one of the feature that PCF offered
was to be able to stack commands and to separate them it used the
field mark key as a delimiter.
Although admittedly the biggest feature of PCF was to do data set
dasd pooling (it also had a few other really nice features). We used
it as well for TSO command authorization as we hadn't gotten RACF
yet. The only issue I had was to change dasd meant an IPL or you had
to have plenty of spare pools. I didn't like to zap LPA modules
unless it was really needed and we needed another freebie from IBM to
do that.
Ed
On May 26, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2012 19:01:13 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
This part wasn't answered. You need to use the field mark key
(x'1E').
Does ISPF treat it the same way that TSO does? I thought that it was
just another character except for TSO line mode.
Don't know. But I once tried to set Field Mark as my Command
Delimiter (seemed to make sense, and semicolon is much too
valuable otherwise). ISPF wouldn't let me do that.
-- gil
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