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.) > I did this quite by accident this afternoon -- bad finger fumble. And I watched while the progress bar began to creep across the window with aching slowness. Curses! But wait; there appears to be an escape: the key legend at the bottom of the popup says, "PF12 - Cancel". I press PF12. Nothing happens. But I've learned to deal with these silly-assed 3270 terminals. I press RESET. Nothing happens. I press RESET again, and the keyboard unlocks; I'm getting there; I press PF12. The keyboard locks again, but nothing else happens. The progress bar continues its weary journey. Finally it reaches 100%; the Cancel takes effect and the data set list vanishes.
Is it me, or is it them who fail to understand the fundamentals of cancelling a long-running process? Or should I have placed the cursor in the popup before pressing PF12? I'll try that next time. Regardless, if it's going to cancel the parent window display, it would be a courtesy to the customer to do that immediately rather than waiting until the popup exits. Don't these brilliant young overseas programmers know how to wait on multiple ECBs? -- 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
