Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting

2018-06-22 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek)
Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting > 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'm no expert in

AW: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting

2018-06-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
> 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'm no expert in the 3270 protocol, but I don't think PAS is described in the architecture. I'

AW: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting

2018-06-22 Thread Peter Hunkeler
> Not all that difficult to do using standard 3270 orders: SBA to the screen location; SF to start an unprotected field. Immediately SF to start a protected field. I'm fairly certain this will allow TAB to go the the 0-length unprotected field which precedes the ​protected field. If not, then

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting

2018-06-22 Thread John McKown
; From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Tom Marchant > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 7:48 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:00:29 +, Dyck,

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting

2018-06-22 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek)
18 7:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:00:29 +, Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek) wrote: >Those fields in SDSF are probably PAS fields but you don't see that as the >panels are more than likely d

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting

2018-06-22 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:00:29 +, Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek) wrote: >Those fields in SDSF are probably PAS fields but you don't see that as the >panels are more than likely dynamic in nature (I don't run SDSF so I can't >check that). Similarly, the ISPF Primary Option Menu uses point-and-sh

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting

2018-06-22 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek)
Those fields in SDSF are probably PAS fields but you don't see that as the panels are more than likely dynamic in nature (I don't run SDSF so I can't check that). I'm looking at ISPF dialogs where I want to allow PAS fields where the user can either TAB or mouse and then click to activate the a

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting

2018-06-22 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek)
If you can tab to a PAS field then you don't need the mouse, but using a PAS allows those who want to use the mouse to do so. -- Lionel B. Dyck (Contractor) < Mainframe Systems Programmer – RavenTek Solution Partners -

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Two new RFE's to consider supporting

2018-06-22 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek)
Actually the desire is to tab to the PAS field but not allow the field to be over-typed. -- Lionel B. Dyck (Contractor) < Mainframe Systems Programmer – RavenTek Solution Partners -Original Message- From: IBM Mainfr