There are three distinct languages associated with ISPF EDIT
The commands that you enter on the EDIT panel
The commands that you enter in the line #
The commands for the ISREDIT environment.
None of them, of course, is a programming language.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of
Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 12:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: FTP Software for Mainframe to PC
On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 15:16:14 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
>On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, at 15:05, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>> Yup. Pet peeve: ISPF Edit has no way of escaping apostrophe, which otheer
>> IBM languages
>
>But "ispf edit" isn't a language. What do you mean?
>
It's repeatedly disputed in this forum whether JCL is a language. Yet JCL has
a convention
for escaping the apostrophe: ...,PARM='"Hello," says O''Reilly.'
ISPF, like JCL, is a user interface supporting delimited strings in commands,
but reports
an error for:
CHANGE PARM '"Hello," says O''Reilly.'
I've been told the alternative is a hexadecimal string. AYFK!
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gil
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