On 2015-06-25 06:30, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In <[email protected]>, on 06/23/2015 > at 09:24 AM, Charles Mills said: > >> I know I can do a command line CUT and PASTE but I have a lot of >> edits to do where a basic CC/A type copy would be more convenient. > > Does it have to be ISPF/PDF EDIT? If you have a THE port available, it > will do the job. > Has THE actually been ported to z/OS?
On 2015-06-25 07:31, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > on 06/23/2015 at 03:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: > >> Y'know there's grist here for the SER mill here. And any refutation >> that begins "Because [implementation details] ..." is unacceptable. > > It's also the way that it's been documented since Old Man Noach > cornered the market in gopher wood. It's an enhancement request, even > though the original design lacked foresight. > > IMHO the enhancement to request is the full functionality of XEDIT, > either as a prot, an ISPF enhancement or a separate editor obsoleting > both. Whatever, it won't happen unless and until someone presents a > compelling business case. > But the refutation of that, as of 64-bit assembler, will be, "We've been doing fine without that for nigh on 50 years. Why does someone suddenly think we need it now?" -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
