Some laptops (maybe it's windows 10), allow you to remap a key from a windows perspective. Perhaps your laptop/windows has SHIFT+F9 mapped to something completely different?
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 2:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PF key - one PF key - not responding While replying to some of the ideas you folks sent me I thought to try another one: I said <Shift-F9> works in Outlook, but I forgot to distinguish: It's working in ~my~ Outlook, on my own desktop. So I just went to Outlook on the client's desktop (provided through the VPN), and there <F9> works in Outlook but <Shift-F9> doesn't. Clearly the problem a) isn't in my imagination, b) isn't on my own hardware somewhere, and c) isn't in any part of the mainframe. It's gotta be in the VPN or on the server side. I'll still take ideas, but I hereby declare this OT for this forum. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Q: What do you call a beautiful woman on a trombonist's arm? A: A tatoo. -from a collection of musician jokes */ --- On 8/24/2020 9:57 AM, Bob Bridges wrote: > This is a really weird one. My <Shift-PF9> key is not getting any response > from ISPF, and before you tell me it must be my keyboard or my PC, let me > tell you what I've tried so far: > > In ISPF <PF9> is assigned the string "rfind" and <Shift-PF9> is assigned the > string "rchange". I'm in ISPF Edit and attempt the command "c all agt own", > and start hitting <Shift-PF9> in order to find and change selected instances > of "agt" to "own". Nothing happens. > > o I test it by using <PF9>. The rfind command works fine. > > o I try using the right shift key instead of the left. No response. > > o I hit both shift keys a few times, in case one of them has got locked. > Doesn't fix the problem. > > o I reboot the PC. No change. > > o Maybe there's something wrong with my ISPF change command; I "HELP" to > <Shift-PF9>. Nope, > <Shift-PF9> still garners no response > > o I type "rchange" manually on the command line; that works, so the problem > isn't the command, it's > that the keystroke isn't being sent. > > o I check the keyboard mapping on my emulation; it claims that <Shift-F9> is > mapped to PF21. > > o Ok, maybe it's not the keyboard but the PC itself working with <PF9 but > not <Shift-PF9>. So in Outlook > I mapped both <F9> and <Shift-F9> to the '£' character. Both <F9> and > <Shift-F9> produced '£'. I > conclude the keystroke is being sent. > > I'm out of ideas. If the keystroke is being sent by my PC, and the 3270 > emulation is converting it to <PF21>, why does ISPF not respond to it? Any > ideas out there? I'll take anything, at this point, no matter how unlikely. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
