On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:11:10 -0700, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>On a Z/OS v1r7 system, from the TSO READY prompt, I do:
>
> READY
>oshell uname -a
> OS/390 ECC1 17.00 03 2084
> READY
>allocate dd(foo) path('/etc/profile')
>
> READY
>allocate dd(foo) path('/etc/profile')
>
> IKJ56246I PATH /etc/profile NOT ALLOCATED, FILE IN USE
> IKJ56112A ENTER 'FREE' OR 'END'+-
>free
> IKJ56113I INVALID RESPONSE
> IKJ56113A REENTER+-
>end
> IKJ56113I INVALID RESPONSE
> IKJ56113A REENTER+-
>'FREE'
> IKJ56113I INVALID RESPONSE
> IKJ56113A REENTER+-
>'END'
> IKJ56113I INVALID RESPONSE
> IKJ56113A REENTER+-
>
>This is painfully similar to the former behavior of IKJ56700A,
>somewhat fixed in APAR Item OW50742. The principle is the same:
>if an interactive sytem prompts a user for input and supplies a
>list of acceptable responses, then it must in fact accept at least
>one of the responses presented as acceptable.
>
>See also APAR Item OZ84458. A similar resolution is needed
>in this case. In fact the behavior above can be considered a
>regression of the problem in OZ84458.
>
>-- Submitted as ETR Record 59559,033,000.
>
>But it leaves me wondering: doesn't anyone ever sit in front of
>a terminal and test these things?
>
I had the same problem a few years ago on OS390 and maybe even older
systems. It only happened when I used an old QWS3270 program written for
Windows 3.1. If I tried the same thing with a different program (PCOM or
x3270) the problem did not happen. I always blamed it on the emulator
program, but never looked into it to find the actual cause. I haven't
tried using the old program recently.
Bill Godfrey
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