> IBM's excuse Is an excuse after the fact, not a considered design decision. That's why I coined "Broken As Designed (BAD)".
> is that protects the user against unwittingly entering more than 1023 > characters Except that it doesn't. Making the field shorter protects against excessive length; splitting the field just makes it more awkward to use. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Extraneous blanks in SDSF issued command On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 16:34:27 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> In some cases, such as 3.17, ISPF puts a visible pillarbox around the 80 >> columns, marking it with "|". > >In those cases you're dealing with two input fields; you'd get the same insert >behavior if the input fields and the intervening output fields were in the >same line. > I was unclear. 3.17 has an adjunct panel where the user can enter a full pathname On a Mod 2/4 this is formatted as a single field occupying 12 lines and most of a 13th. On a Mod 5 it's 13 separate fields in a pillarbox. So, if I realize I've omitted characters or a level, I must turn on INSERT; go to the end of each prior line and delete the necessary characters; go to the beginning and retype those characters from the end of the previous line; etc. IBM's excuse is that protects the user against unwittingly entering more than 1023 characters and receiving "EDC5126I Filename too long." Sheesh! It's no harder to recover from EDC5126I than from a locked keyboard. And that's an unlikely error anyway. And I can force the EDC5126I anyway by entering a pathname containing a symlink. >> Supporting the antique and not the modern is just bad design. > >++ > >> (How long has the Mod 5 been around?) > >Only 4 decades -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
