Re: about HILITE in ISPF Editor

2007-03-21 Thread Don Leahy
Check with your systems programmer. HILITE may have been purposely disabled. If it is disabled, ask for the reason why...and it had better be good! If *you* are the systems programmer, then run ISPCCONF to figure out what your default setting is. - Original Message - Hi Neil,

about HILITE in ISPF Editor

2007-03-20 Thread KC Eric Wong
Hi all, I am new to ISPF Editor. When I am editing a COBOL file, I found that syntax highlighting is OFF, When I type HILITE ON in the command line, it says HILITE unavailable, Seems that it is disabled somehow. Does anyone meet this problem? How can I enable it again? Thanks! KC Eric

Re: about HILITE in ISPF Editor

2007-03-20 Thread Robert Bardos
KC Eric, I remember encountering a similar message when trying 'hilite dtl' on an HFS HTML file that had records that were longer than 255 characters. However, as you mention COBOL I doubt that that's the reason. Anyway, did you press F1 (or enter 'help') upon the first message being displayed?

Re: about HILITE in ISPF Editor

2007-03-20 Thread KC Eric Wong
Hi Robert, Thanks for your reply! I pressed F1 and it says The HILITE command is not available in mixed mode edit sessions. Then, I go to Menu - Edit - Options, to disable Mixed Mode. Also, I changed all lower case characters to upper case, but still it doesn't work. What does Mixed mode

Re: about HILITE in ISPF Editor

2007-03-20 Thread Robert Bardos
Had to look up 'Mixed Mode' first and it seems to be related to DBCS. Here's what the tutorial page says on 'Mixed Mode': You can edit unformatted mixed data which contains both EBCDIC (one-byte) characters and Double Byte Character Set (DBCS or two-byte) characters. To do this, you must

Re: about HILITE in ISPF Editor

2007-03-20 Thread KC Eric Wong
Hi Robert, Thanks much for your help! I also do not have any experience on DBCS. And after trials and errors, finally it works ! In the System Main Menu - PDF, instead of choosing Utilities - Dslist, I chose Edit, then a screen came up, and then I typed the dataset name and chose not to

Re: about HILITE in ISPF Editor

2007-03-20 Thread Neil Duffee
At August 23, 2005 13:32, concerning Re: about HILITE in ISPF Editor, Robert Bardos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (to IBM-Main): I remember encountering a similar message when trying 'hilite dtl' on an HFS HTML file that had records that were longer than 255 characters. However, as you mention

Re: about HILITE in ISPF Editor

2007-03-20 Thread KC Eric Wong
Hi Neil, Thanks for your info! I tried HILITE COBOL , but it still says HILITE unavailable KC Eric On 3/21/07, Neil Duffee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At August 23, 2005 13:32, concerning Re: about HILITE in ISPF Editor, Robert Bardos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (to IBM-Main): I remember