On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 23:15:14 -0600, Edward Gould wrote: > >> I suspect 1-8 was an intended accommodation to VB. And in another apparent >> accommodation, ISPF Edit until recently would not create an 8-character >> record >> but always padded it with an additional blank. > >I don’t think so as SPF wasn’t around when MVS first came out. I “think” it >was 5 or so years afterwards, so that wasn’t the reason. > Have you a more plausible conjecture? If not, I'm sticking with mine. And the chronology you assume fits with my explanation.
>> In days of yore panel definitions for SPF (now known as ISPF) were VB. >> Abruptly >> they changed to FB. Disruptively -- it broke all my customized panels. >> Cognoscenti >> surmised this was an accommodation to SMP(/E) and IEBUPDTE. > >I will admit that I am leary of that explanation, ... >> Why? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
