Thanks to all for their suggestions. I have tried every permutation I can think of, but to no avail. Yes, I understand some permutations are ignored but I tried them anyway....even IBM software has been reported to have a bug or two from time to time.. ;-)) I'm using z/OS 1.12 and ISPF 6.1.
The dataset in question is myid.ispf.pli, so the low-level qualifier is for PL/I. In fact, I have set the HILIGHT to PLI. In the ISPF editor everything works as it should. There are no line numbers in columns 1-6 becuase there are PL/I or *PROCESS statements there. There are also no line numbers in 73-80. I run a Mod 5 terminal, so there are no "hidden" columns. WYSIWIG in ISPF. The data set has the ISPF PROFILE attributes PLI (FIXED -80), NUMBER OFF, AUTONUM OFF, IMACRO NONE, MARGINS(2,80). I still get the first six columns blanked out....set to x'40' not x'00'. As suggested, I will try the ISPF-L list. Cheers, Jon Butler. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN