I need some pointers on programming with the ISPF Jump command. I'll provide some background details first to hopefully prevent suggestions for things I have already tried. I am working on an assembler ISPF application that does not use the ISPF Select service nor ZSEL in panel definitions. It is a single load module that uses the ISPF Display service to display menus and data panels. It performs all its own processing of menus.
I am in the process of adding support for fast path commands. Without using the Select service, the Dialog Manager does not seem to handle multi-level menu selections (eg. 8.3) at all, so I have implemented code to support that. The problem I have is with the ISPF Jump (=) command. I would like for the application to operate as any standard ISPF application using the normal Jump command which users will expect. I would like to either find a way for the Dialog Manager to handle the multi-level menu commands or to completely disable it. So far I have not found a way to prevent ISPF from handling the = command. Whenever an =x.x style command is entered, ISPF processes the Jump command (generating return code 8 and ZVERB RETURN for each panel display back to the Primary Menu) but I don't get the remainder of the command (the x.x part). ZCMD is blanks and ZVERB is RETURN. I attempted to use the .trail function to get the remaining command into a variable, with no success. Either that is handled by Select, which I don't issue, or I have not found the right combination to get it set. At this point I would like to stop ISPF from handling the = command at all, so that I receive it along with the rest of the command string but I have not found a way to do that. Using the nojump(on) parameter on the field attribute panel definition does not help because that simply creates an ISPF error message if the = command is used and the command input is not provided to the program. Is there a way to stop, via a program call or panel definition, ISPF from processing the = command? Or a way to change Jump to another character so I could use =? Or, am I missing something obvious and going about this in the wrong way? I currently have the needed support implemented by using a different character as my Jump command, but that's not intuitive to a typical ISPF user. Surly there is something I have not been able to find in the documentation, to do this. Thanks for any suggestions. Chuck Arney Arney Computer Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
