On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:58:59 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: >On 31 August 2010 14:39, Pinnacle wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benik, John E" > >>> Does anybody know of a way to prevent the following from happening when >>> setting numbers off? Short of going into every member of a PDS I have >>> not found a way to prevent this. We have tried profile lock and a >>> number of other things without success. >>> >>> -CAUTION- Profile changed to NUMBER ON STD (from NUMBER OFF). >>> Data has valid standard numbers. > It's only trying to help you.
>This has been a long standing complaint of mine with ISPF. In most >cases I want to be able to tell it *DO NOT FIDDLE WITH MY SETTINGS - I >KNOW THE WAY I WANT IT*. And I can't. It always knows best. > I feel the same way about turning off data set delete confirmation. I've mentioned that on these lists, with great polarization in the reactions: o I trust myself so little that no one else should be allowed to do this! (Psychologists call this "projection".) o I used ISPF for 15? years before confirmation appeared. For me, reviewing the screen before pressing ENTER was always my confirmation. It's my foot and my bullet. >> If you want to suppress this for all time, create an IMACRO to do this: >> >> NUM ON >> UNNUM >> NUM OFF > >The problem I have with this is that there are various cases where >that initial macro won't take effect, e.g. edit an empty member and >then copy the content of a member with valid numbers in. And the macro > The worst case is where 73-80 contain monotonically increasing numeric data which are not intended to be sequence numbers. NUM OFF has no lasting effect; it just turns on again next time you edit the file. >has to be set up on system and userid you are using. Why on earth >can't they provide an option to truly lock some or all settings? CAPS >ON is the very worst, because it so easily destroys data. > It's only trying to help you. But Shane might argue there shouldn't even be a CAPS OFF setting. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
