Mouse selection exists. Configure your mouse to send CUR SEL, which emulates a light-pen press. The panel needs to make the field light-pen/CUR SEL compatible.
We did this in the early 80s, writing an in-house emulator, before emulators were available. OREXXMan JCL is the buggy whip of 21st century computing. Stabilize it. Put Pipelines in the z/OS base. Would you rather process data one character at a time (Unix/C style), or one record at a time? IBM has been looking for an HLL for program products; REXX is that language. On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 5:41 PM, Frank Swarbrick < frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote: > I've been utilizing this new "point and shoot" feature in SDSF for about a > week now. I like it, but its not perfect, for reasons others have > mentioned. > > In this particular case it seems to me what would be ideal is if the > feature did not require the cursor to be placed within the JOBNAME column. > Rather, it seems to me that: > - If the cursor is anywhere in a particular row, > - and the NP column for that row is "empty", > - then "pressing enter" would have the same action as if the NP column had > '?' entered in to it. > > Can't think of anything that would break, but who knows. I believe it > would eliminate any need to turn on the ISPF "Tab to point-and-shoot > fields" option. Basically, if not using a mouse, you could simply > "newline" to the NP column on the desired line (without having to worry > about "tabable" column headers) and press enter. > > I have no idea if this would address the actual reason the RFE was opened. > > Frank > ________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf > of Jesse 1 Robinson <jesse1.robin...@sce.com> > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 11:08 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting > > I voted for the PAS RFE as a user, not considering what I know--or don't > know--about the underlying technology. A particular ISV product some time > ago changed a screen to create exactly what Lionel is complaining about. A > column title on a PDS member list was suddenly tabbable, 'capturing' the > cursor on its way to the first member entry. I complained and got the > answer that some customers wanted this behavior so they could (re)sort the > list based on that column. My objection was that 99% of the time a(ny) user > wants to select a member entry, not sort the list. ISV gave me some kind of > fix. > > I recently started a thread here on the new default behavior of SDSF in > z/OS 2.3. PAS, if it's useful at all, should be controllable by the user. I > question the value of PAS if only because it interrupts the 'finger flow' > of an application. You have to keep a wary eye peeled on the screen all the > time to know where you're at. That might be fine for a first-time or > occasional user, but it compromises productivity for the experienced user. > Which most of us are. > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > robin...@sce.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 9:10 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: (External):Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting > > Given that ISPF already supports point and shoot and that IBM has no > control over 3rd party 3270 simulators and TN3270 clients, you'll need a > strong business case. The only solution I know of within the existing 3270 > protocol is a zero-width field. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf > of Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek) <lionel.d...@va.gov> > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 3:08 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu > Subject: Two new RFE's to consider supporting > > Please consider supporting these RFE's that I just submitted: > > ISPF Point and Shoot Protected Fields > > https://secure-web.cisco.com/1eSaRV5UJ3V1J9lFuWduNMNEXKwsjE > r0nnYLCdtANa5wcGIytP_p89VwxV76dUYujSzZGvsssoum5dfWf > 031TCGUtebzzpwdlkSgZJnaqbpOkVLJas5jtys5H1gU8JRFNOD2vMXd3U8ab > HHyUJFosa64XBfNSgGc5MvffGa_1ZfKyWEpmQAA3kv0sNVrx-whBQbW89l_3pWtg15_ > 7MBLqVtWvke6na3t-Tk6vOswu28yUE4IUe2koNEA8oyONAN > QER39qJALUqHMLIzs58oysAkIsJcmb1ccODLmdnzKY2gXS9eVRancgDDeqgV > BCArpyN5npMA64aVH_B47XdVoSdSV7DtHk5UyIdPlCkMjOI6 > 9Dv8kpj0u74ruw1jKi-4U9/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibm.com%2Fdeveloperworks%2Frfe% > 2Fexecute%3Fuse_case%3DviewRfe%26CR_ID%3D121576 > > And > > Improve ISPF 3.17 by allowing CD on the command line > > https://secure-web.cisco.com/1xtqTd4IbEpSIeq1S0zeI1IMPcAcWs > FuqmZWHpViLukOiAtsG1u7lb2OGbEuJwHffWY-3ICATc1LstgliNG5YJwm_ehvRmlvFVRjp1_ > ELkgd2iFLph4vBOuNp9wHVtL3RKyceFMRN7yre-njqs_Cp5ejI7zvJhlJ9KQNaY5Uf- > 3lQTeIfIugyV8IIgCZR8TlawkDi4qZiF7y_zgKvvN0SxF_ > Xz1oJoLxm35MAsfUGMTUGsbJx4aT3jrANFbnl0DsO_SX5FTaYfjwWwsARjRQPgzrQ3kmz-_ > 4QLdHofUx_xy541tlAJhhYLLpLZ-xJoNkzcA5aQ--sPgP_ > 7WkfCHn9hOLgHD5yzj8m5z4KMY5w5M78ygtsyAV9psRghqfpCT1w/https% > 3A%2F%2Fwww.ibm.com%2Fdeveloperworks%2Frfe%2Fexecute%3Fuse_case% > 3DviewRfe%26CR_ID%3D121575 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Lionel B. 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