Didn’t mean to be unclear; when I said "rchange" was assigned to <Shift-PF9>, I really meant to <PF21>.
However it's a good question about trying it in other apps. I went back to the PDF menu - the ISPF Primary Options Menu, I mean (I guess I'm showing my age) - assigned HELP to <PF21> and hit <Shift-F9>. No response. If I hadn't rebooted, and if <Shift-PF9> weren't provably working in a non-mainframe app (ie Outlook), it would be perfectly obvious that the problem is at my end, either in my PC or the keyboard. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* I'm not naive about my country. My country is definitely not always right; my country has at times been terribly wrong. But I know this about Americans: We don't set out to kill innocent people. We don't cheer when innocent people die. -Dave Barry, 2001-09-14 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 13:13 PF setting is ispf application sensitive. Try keys at the command line while in edit. What us the value of "pf21"? --- בתאריך יום ב׳, 24 באוג׳ 2020, 19:58, מאת Bob Bridges <[email protected] > This is a really weird one. My <Shift-PF9> key is not getting any > response from ISPF, and before you tell me it must be my keyboard or my PC, > let me tell you what I've tried so far: > > In ISPF <PF9> is assigned the string "rfind" and <Shift-PF9> is assigned > the string "rchange". I'm in ISPF Edit and attempt the command "c all agt > own", and start hitting <Shift-PF9> in order to find and change selected > instances of "agt" to "own". Nothing happens. > > o I test it by using <PF9>. The rfind command works fine. > > o I try using the right shift key instead of the left. No response. > > o I hit both shift keys a few times, in case one of them has got locked. > Doesn't fix the problem. > > o I reboot the PC. No change. > > o Maybe there's something wrong with my ISPF change command; I "HELP" to > <Shift-PF9>. Nope, <Shift-PF9> still garners no response > > o I type "rchange" manually on the command line; that works, so the > problem isn't the command, it's that the keystroke isn't being sent. > > o I check the keyboard mapping on my emulation; it claims that <Shift-F9> > is mapped to PF21. > > o Ok, maybe it's not the keyboard but the PC itself working with <PF9 but > not <Shift-PF9>. So in Outlook I mapped both <F9> and <Shift-F9> to the > '£' character. Both <F9> and <Shift-F9> produced '£'. I conclude the > keystroke is being sent. > > I'm out of ideas. If the keystroke is being sent by my PC, and the 3270 > emulation is converting it to <PF21>, why does ISPF not respond to it? Any > ideas out there? I'll take anything, at this point, no matter how unlikely. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
