Actually the desire is to tab to the PAS field but not allow the field to be over-typed.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck (Contractor) <sdg>< Mainframe Systems Programmer – RavenTek Solution Partners -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 8:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 19:08:53 +0000, Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek) wrote: >Please consider supporting these RFE's that I just submitted: > >ISPF Point and Shoot Protected Fields > >https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=121576 On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:13:21 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: >Steve Smith wrote: > >>Isn't #1 impossible? From what I've retained (or think I have) of 3270 >>programming, a "tab" is merely the start of an unprotected field. >Catch-22. > >Correct. You cannot tab to a protected field. And I suspect that a request >for an update to the 3270 protocol is not likely to be fulfilled at this >point. > Reading the RFE, it appears that the submitter does not want to be able to tab to a PAS field; rather he wants to be able to define a PAS field that will be skipped by tab. Does 3270 protocol require that PAS fields be writable, therefore tabbable? Bad design. It's perfectly reasonable to want to specify a read-only PAS menu item. (Too few bits in the attribute byte?) I believe many emulators nowadays interpret double-click as "shoot". Or provide "shoot" as a pop-up selection. Long ago, I tried to specify a single-cell PAS field. The host application rejected this, claiming that a light pen can not resolve a single cell. Bad Lowest Common Denominator design. The application should support a possibly hi-res light pen or other PAS device. -- 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
