Paul Gilmartin wrote: >I love Google's query completion. And it would be a good thing >if ISPF were to do similarly on every panel which allows a data set name to be >typed. I suspect >Dave S. can explain to us why this is unlikely to happen soon if ever.
ISPF already supports auto-completion of data set names (kinda sorta), but it's extremely clunky. Better and easier to use SimpList and not have to type anything at all. Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.html > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:22:17 +0100 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name > To: [email protected] > > ... because it is moving back towards suppressing intelligence (as Mao > Tse Tung did in China, in the 1960s). We should not all be obliged to > look at pictures just because the majority of people cannot read. > > Yes, I understand the usefulness of Google's query completion etc. But > 'search engines' are for entertainment purposes - and industry runs on > science and engineering, not art and entertainment. > > You need to type the dataset name on every ISPF panel only because you > are still invoking IBM's 'demo' (now default/'de facto') panels. > > You can bypass ISR@PRIM at logon and display your own panels instead - > then store, retrieve and display in them the datasets you want to > access, e.g. by a VGET (<all DSNs>) on initial display of your panels > and by a VPUT to save them (and any changes to them) on exit, from/to > your profile pool. If you then take copies of the default ISPF panels, > add to them the name of a variable which contains the DSN you want to > process (and that is stored in your panels, e.g. &DSNA) - and you then > save these modified ISPF panels in a dataset concatenated ahead of the > default one on ISPPLIB - they will now be the ones that are displayed. > If you next create TSO commands (in a table in ISPTLIB) which are > associated with the ISPF functions you want to invoke (passing e.g. > &DSNA to them), then issue your TSO commands (e.g. 'BR' for Browse or > 'ED' for Edit etc.), your modified ISPF panels will now contain your > selected DSN. If you set PANELID ON, you will see the names of which > panels you need to copy and modify. Admittedly, there is a bit more to > it than that; but I'm sure you can figure it out. > > BTW Bear in mind that Google now tracks everywhere you go on the web ... > and then sells your info to advertisers <wry grin>: > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2105435/Three-simple-steps-delete-Google-browsing-history--late.html > > > > Cheers, Chris Poncelet > > Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > >On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:57:25 +0100, CM Poncelet wrote: > > > > > > > >>IBM have recognized that 99% of users are computer illiterate, but have > >>99% of the money. So they are following Microsoft's 'lead' and, > >>step-by-step, implementing Windoze for mainframes. > >> > >> > >> > >And this, were it to happen, would be entirely a Bad Thing because ...? > > > >I love Google's query completion. As soon as I've typed 3 characters in > >the text box, it presents me with a dropdown menu of a handful of > >plausible completions (all wrong). A few more keystrokes and it shows > >me the one I want, among others, not only on Windows, but likewise on > >OS X and Linux. This is not a bad thing. And it would be a good thing > >(disputed only by laudator temporis acti ©) if ISPF were to do similarly > >on every panel which allows a data set name to be typed. I suspect > >Dave S. can explain to us why this is unlikely to happen soon if ever. > > > >And spelling correction. I like the way Google presents me an option; > >I detest the way Firefox makes the correction, willy-nilly. It could be > >done well. > > > >-- gil > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
