When youre in EDIT mode, try PFSHOW on the command line. See what it says. Joe
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 1:22 PM Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > While replying to some of the ideas you folks sent me I thought to try > another one: I said <Shift-F9> works in Outlook, but I forgot to > distinguish: It's working in ~my~ Outlook, on my own desktop. So I just > went to Outlook on the client's desktop (provided through the VPN), and > there <F9> works in Outlook but <Shift-F9> doesn't. > > Clearly the problem a) isn't in my imagination, b) isn't on my own > hardware somewhere, and c) isn't in any part of the mainframe. It's gotta > be in the VPN or on the server side. I'll still take ideas, but I hereby > declare this OT for this forum. > > --- > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* Q: What do you call a beautiful woman on a trombonist's arm? A: A > tatoo. -from a collection of musician jokes */ > > --- On 8/24/2020 9:57 AM, Bob Bridges wrote: > > 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 lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
