Frank Swarbrick wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 15:32:18 +0200, Tidy, David (D) <[email protected]>
wrote:
Thanks for the earlier correction on my language - I am indeed English.
Explains why I couldn't reconcile the hex. I work for an American
company as well, so I should have been more aware.
Anyway for the original problem, look at what has happened in your ISPF
terminal type (under Menu;settings). For me if I set T3278A, the the
sqare brackets display fine - my normal setting of T3277 displays them
badly (in such a way that some screens might suppress). As well as those
two, you could try SW500 to see if it makes a difference.
You could post what your terminal type is set to to help.
Looks like you've solved it. I had my Terminal Type set to 3278A (you're
talking about the ISPF Settings screen, right?). Changing it to just 3278 fixes
it.
So the question is, what is it about 3278A that causes this issue? And how
does one even decide what terminal type to use, anyway?
Thanks!
Frank
Now that ISPF panels support code pages and most "3270" devices are
really emulators with code page support, the anachronism of "terminal
type" in ISPF needs to be completely rethought. The terminal type
appears to impose yet another character mapping before characters from
an ISPF panel reach a 3270 emulator, based on character graphics and
character code variants peculiar to specific 3270 hardware models.
There needs to be some way to directly inform ISPF of the emulator code
page in use and avoid having the picture muddied by what from the user's
standpoint is an increasingly obscure and unwanted additional
terminal-type translation. 3270 control sequences need to be immune
from translation, but codes for graphics should have a translation based
purely on the ISPF panel code page and the emulator code page.
There also needs to be some mechanism to separately define the code page
associated with full screen displays that bypass ISPF panel support and
are hard coded into some applications (like Bookmanager Read), which
makes it impossible to set up a single emulator session to handle
brackets correctly for both z/OS UNIX applications and BM Read.
JC Ewing
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