On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:56:07 -0400, Dave Salt wrote: > >The only way you could get the time to keep refreshing is if you keep pressing >an interrupt key to manually keep refreshing the panel, or display the panel >in LOCK mode (so it automatically keeps refreshing itself). But if the panel >is displayed in LOCK mode this means a user can't enter any data; i.e. the >entire mainframe session is locked. I doubt this is what you want, so in >short, you're stuck with it working the way you already have it. > That's *so* twentieth century!
Since the advocates often argue that mainframes are more economical than small systems, why is this feature readily available on desktops, but not on mainframes where it should be cheaper? There's one ISPF function (I forget which) that lately shows a progress bar. It's a continual source of irritation that I can't put SCSV in auto-refresh and go edit a file in the other split. It's a continual source of irritation that I can't split between OMVS and Edit, for example. Why does DDLIST show the message, "Searching data sets not on screen" rather than scrolling so they appear? Why does Find in a large file pause each time after a fixed number of lines and prompt for continuing rather than displaying a progress counter and letting the user interrupt? I believe that nowadays much of the duplex interaction would be possible with modern 3270s. VTAM is much the culprit for prohibiting it. Why is horizontal scrolling so much more difficult than vertical scrolling in ISPF? Did I say it's all *so* twentieth century? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
