Is there an RFE for a TSO facility to prompt the user and display the AID of the user's response? That would be useful in diagnosing misconfigured TN3270 clients and 3270 simulators.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Tom Brennan <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 1:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PF key - one PF key - not responding I don't know if this is related, but I get emails every once in a while telling me a PC's higher PF keys don't do anything at all. It seems to often be a Dell laptop and they need to click the <function> key either while or before clicking the PF key. People have also told me if they do (I think?) <esc><function> or <function><esc> or similar, they get to a point where they can set that option on permanently to use those keys without the function key. 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. > > --- > Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > > /* All comes out even at the end of the day, and all comes out still more > even when all the days are over. -Voltaire */ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
