Ted MacNEIL said:
Why is this a limitation to ISPF?
ISPF doesn't maintain DB2 tables; DB2 does.
Dave Salt said:
Why *isn't* it a limitation of ISPF? ISPF is the user interface to the
mainframe, in just the same way as Windows is the user interface to the
PC. If I'm working on my PC and I click a PDF document, Windows opens the
Adobe reader.
John Giltner said:
Windows does not do this on its own. Windows has no clue how to read a PDF
file. You have a program that knows how and this program tells Windows
when you see a file that ends in .pdf then you need to execute me.
I know that Windows doesn't read the PDF file. In the above I said "Windows
opens the Adobe reader".
The point that was being made by the original poster was that regular ISPF
only keeps track of files that ISPF knows how to deal with. For anything
else (e.g. DB2 tables) he has no way to keep track of whats on the mainframe
other than (a) purchase a vendor product or (b) write a program.
Dave Salt
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