> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
>
> [ snip ]
>
> A good idea, but woefully underreaching -- an initiative to
> bring 3270's into the 1980's; hardly Next Generation.
>
> What this user would like is continuous and dynamic
> adjustment of the terminal geometry.
>
> I should be able to grab a window handle with the mouse
> pointer and stretch or squeeze or reproportion the window at will.
> When I do so the terminal (emulator) should present an
> interrupt to the mainframe session (alternatively the next
> I/O to the terminal might return an error code). At that
> point, the host should issue the RPQ and adjust the
> description of the terminal in the control blocks accordingly.
But doing that would seem to violate the principle that "mainframes" are
for **data** processing (i.e., "business logic"), not presentation
processing. Since a terminal emulator would still be required, I submit
the "massaging" of the presentation space properly belongs in the
emulator, not on the host.
-jc-
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