200 happened to be the maximum that the tn3270 emulator I use would support. Mark T. Regan, K8MTR CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991)
----- Original Message ---- From: Tom Marchant <m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 1:19:41 PM Subject: Re: Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost) On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:09:07 -0700, Mark T. Regan wrote: >Tom, > >Are you doing this with ISPF on v1.10 or an earlier version of z/OS? >I ran into the problem with 1.10 after using 65x200 just fine on 1.9. >When I started testing with v1.10, it stopped working. When I >backed the screen size down to 65x160, it worked okay with v.10. 1.10. I tried 65x200 and ended up with 24x80. Same with 65x162. It seems ISPF doesn't like anything greater than 160. I also tried it on a z/OS 1.9 system and got the same result. Out of curiosity, why 200? Is there something that wide that you look at? -- Tom Marchant > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Tom Marchant <m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com> >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:19:29 AM >Subject: Re: Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost) > >FWIW, I have been happily using 90x142 since you mentioned it. I got to >wondering how big I could go, so I tried 120x160 and got: > >ISPI001 Invalid screen size. The width cannot exceed 160 and the depth >cannot exceed 62 > >I have determined that 102x160 works and 103x160 does not. >115x142 works and 116x142 does not. > >102x160 is 16,320 bytes. >115x142 is 16,330 bytes. > >It seems that ISPF allows 16K (16384 bytes) for the screen buffer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
