Why do I feel the need to defend things like ISPF too often here? The ISPF editor makes a nulls mode available; it provides for optional warning messages when blanks are truncated; etc., etc.
In general, it is much more parametric, both globally and for individual users, than this discussion has so far suggested. Moreover, there are elaborate facilities made available for supplying and using exits than can modify its behavior. It is an old, cosmetically ugly beast; and in many but not all situations there are better alternatives to it available. It is not nearly so bad as it is being represented as being. Are we perhaps dealing here yet again with atrophied skill sets? With people who no longer know how to use the facilities that IBM makes available to them? With systems programmers who are non-programmers? John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
