In a recent note, Ball, Warren [IT] said: > Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 09:41:07 -0400 > > How does one get more than 80 columns showing on one's terminal? Can it be > done > through ISPF? > Depends on the terminal. If you have a real model 2 or 4, you're SOL (except on those occasions when "the network is down", and you continue smugly working while your colleagues complain).
If you have a model 5, or an emulator which supports that, or supports programmable screen geometry, ISPF will exploit whatever it sees. (Shmuel says up to 160 characters; I haven't tested to that boundary.) There may be some issue of getting your sysadmins to define a LOGMODE to handle unconventional screen geometries; at least I had that experience. Again, XEDIT good; ISPF bad. If I disconnect from an XEDIT session, then reconnect with a different screen geometry, XEDIT immediately refreshes the display in the new geometry. ISPF in like circumstances is apt to fall into an endless sequence of TERMINAL I/O ERROR, and unless I can disconnect and reconnect with the original geometry, my session must be cancelled by operator command. The deficiency is in ISPF: from TSO READY prompt, reconnection with different screen geometry is handled effectively. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
