Oh, forgot to mention: I'm using a Lenovo laptop. As always, I plug a standard keyboard into its USB port; I hate laptop keyboards. But this morning I tried <Shift-F9> on my laptop keyboard, too, just to see if it was the standard keyboard. Same issue.
--- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* ....The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one, or — if they think there is not — at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian....does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.... -from _What Christians Believe_ by C S Lewis */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Bickerdike Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 13:40 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]> > Sent: 8/24/2020 1:29:05 PM > > >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. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: 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 > >> 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
