On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Paul Gilmartin<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. The progress bar is an illusion. The screen is locked while it is running. Progress bars are actually easy to code; the key is the CONTROL DISPLAY LOCK service > > 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? Huh? Except for SDSF, FIND doesn't pause after a fixed number of lines; it keeps going until a hit or until EOF. . > > 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
