On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:57:27 -0400, Paul Strauss wrote:
>In reply the the section about the short SDSF command below "And for some
>commands, such as ALLOCATE, many (most?) ISPF command
>lines are too short (particularly SDSF's), even when I abbreviate
>to the minimum allowed." enter a / on the SDSF command line and you'll get
>three lines to enter longer commands.
>
Thanks. I hadn't known about that. But:
o I tried it with a TSO ALLOCATE... command (as above), and I got:
RESPONSE=smfn IEE305I TSO COMMAND INVALID
???
o And it pops up a window, obscuring most of the output display
from which I might want to copy/paste or merely retype text.
(Scrolling through the command recall buffer could have been
done with PF7/PF8 when the cursor is in the extended command
area.)
o And the area is formatted as multiple fields rather than a
single field, making insertion of characters a pain.
o And, typical of IBM's penchant for implementing useful facilities
in the wrong layer, this seems peculiar to SDSF. More usefully,
it should apply to all ISPF panels having command lines.
They could have done better on all those points.
-- gil
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