> In some cases, such as 3.17, ISPF puts a visible pillarbox around the 80 > columns, marking it with "|".
In those cases you're dealing with two input fields; you'd get the same insert behavior if the input fields and the intervening output fields were in the same line. > Supporting the antique and not the modern is just bad design. ++ > (How long has the Mod 5 been around?) Only 4 decades -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 8:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Extraneous blanks in SDSF issued command On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 16:45:46 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >I have no idea how all the layers work. My guess is that the SDSF coders >intended one field, but when it gets turned into 80 columns centered in a > >80 column wide screen, that ISPF turns it into two fields. As I say, I do >not know how the various layers there interact with each other. > In some cases, such as 3.17, ISPF puts a visible pillarbox around the 80 columns, marking it with "|". >See for yourself what I am describing: sign on with a screen wider than 80. >Go to SDSF and type /+. Hit PF5. > Does the behavior differ between 80 columns and wider? (I think that's what you're saying.) Supporting the antique and not the modern is just bad design. (How long has the Mod 5 been around?) >-----Original Message----- >From: Seymour J Metz >Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 4:05 PM > >> SDSF thinks it continues > >What are you trying to say? Either it is one field or it is not. Where are >the SF/SFE positions? > The TAB key should be telling. Does TAB move the cursor to the beginning of that second line (wrong!) or farther, to the next intended field (right). -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
