I have a Dell laptop and some keys often fail to work. It's a common problem. In your case it could be something similar. The fault is intermittent and I use a USBexternal keyboard to overcome the problem.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 03:38 Billy Ashton <[email protected]> wrote: > It really sounds like your Shift F9 key is mapped to something other > than PF21 in the emulator. I don't remember the commands in Extra! to > see the keyboard mapping, but I would start there. Be sure you are > looking at Shift F9, not just base F9. > Billy > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Bob Bridges" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: 8/24/2020 1:29:05 PM > Subject: Re: PF key - one PF key - not responding > > >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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
