On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 13:39:57 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >Thanks. I will give that sort of thing a try. > >I *still* like John's weird thought. I work from a home office. I tend to be >a little loose with the demarcation between work and not work. Sometimes I >get up from my PC. Sometimes I come back in 20 minutes. Sometimes I do not. >I like that whether I am gone for ten seconds or ten hours, I find Windows >right where I left it. It would be nice if ISPF were right where I left it. >(I understand the resource and security advantages of a forced logoff. >John's weird thought would make that logoff more transparent.) > Ever since TSO gained the RECONNECT option I have been able to simply pull the plug, kill my emulator, whatever, and reconnect from elsewhere.
The grievous deficiency here is that if I reconnect with a different terminal geometry, Bad Things Happen (unrecoverable and recurrent terminal I/O errors, etc) XEDIT recovers gracefully if I reconnect with a different terminal geometry so it's not technically impossible; just half-hearted ISPF design. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
