SDSF uses ISPF dynamic areas for its displays - for speed and also flexibility with screen attribute highlighting.
However, an application using dynamic areas is responsible for processing the code to handle, amongst other things, navigation commands (LEFT,RIGHT,UP and DOWN) as well as common primary commands such as "FIND" and "Repeat FIND". The application can choose to support RFIND by adding the "RFIND" verb into the ISPF command table as "PASSTHRU" and then picking it up in the application logic - however SDSF chooses to use "IFIND". Maybe the reasons for this are two-fold : (a) SDSF can be invoked as a TSO command rather than ISPF application - it could be that historically it was a TSO command before it ran under ISPF (maybe even before it came out of IBM) therefore the original author did not know/care about "RFIND". (b) If an application 'intercepts' RFIND via the ISPF command table entry PASSTHRU - it has a bit extra work to do to make RFIND active again if it then invokes ISPF services (eg VIEW/EDIT BROWSE) from within itself. Do-able but a few hoops must be jumped thru. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
