On 27 May 2012 08:43:36 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Paul: > >I think that was because that way back when IBM had a TSO product >called PCF. If memory serves me one of the feature that PCF offered >was to be able to stack commands and to separate them it used the >field mark key as a delimiter. > >Although admittedly the biggest feature of PCF was to do data set >dasd pooling (it also had a few other really nice features). We used >it as well for TSO command authorization as we hadn't gotten RACF >yet. The only issue I had was to change dasd meant an IPL or you had >to have plenty of spare pools. I didn't like to zap LPA modules >unless it was really needed and we needed another freebie from IBM to >do that. > >Ed > >On May 26, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >> On Fri, 25 May 2012 19:01:13 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >>> >>>> This part wasn't answered. You need to use the field mark key >>>> (x'1E'). >>> >>> Does ISPF treat it the same way that TSO does? I thought that it was >>> just another character except for TSO line mode. >>> >> Don't know. But I once tried to set Field Mark as my Command >> Delimiter (seemed to make sense, and semicolon is much too >> valuable otherwise). ISPF wouldn't let me do that. >> >> -- gil >> AS I recall from the 1980's, I had set up the logon CLIST for most users to immediately go into ISPF after allocations and logoff after ISPF exit. The proper handling of log/list defaults took care of the problem for the most part for us (SYSOUT Z as I recall).
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