The problem is not in TSO or ISPF. The problem is your keyboard mapping if your logging on directly to TSO. If you're logging on via, e.g., TPX, check what keys it's intercepting.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Bob Bridges <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 12:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: PF key - one PF key - not responding 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
