On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:15:35 +0100, Lindy Mayfield wrote: >I was just amazed when I was in 3.4 and I had a list of all my datasets >based on the first HLQ of my userid and hit PF11. We've recently >installed z/OS 1.9. > >Admittedly I'm easily amused, but I'd give this a coolness factor of >3.01296 out of PI. > >(If you don't have 1.9 yet, a window pops up with a progress bar that >moves from 0 - 100 percent.) > What's cooler is that it's innterruptible with ATTN. What's less cool than it might be is that ATTN returns me to the primary ISPF panel.
But trying to set up for the demonstration, I first picked a wildcard HLQ far too big. When I tired of waiting for the list to display, I pressed ATTN. Several times. Vertical bar each time. Finally, I disconnected my terminal and logged in again. TSO/ISPF's terminal interaction still sucks; anything inconveniently long should be gently interruptible. Likewise, a recurrent irritation is searching a large data set for a string, and having the search pause every 100,000 lines to ask me whether I want to continue. Better to show a progress bar and allow interruption by ATTN. But that ATTN should not return me to the primary panel. And why, why, why is the argument for UP and DOWN still limited to 9,999 lines? What rationale is there for making it any less than the size of the file? (Or at least the remaining distance in the chosen scrolling direction.) (Halfword psychosis is not a rationale, nor is a value motivated by the weight of a double armload of punched cards.) -- 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
