OT: ISPF Question

This is a question for you mainframers who do your COBOL programming
in ISPF.  In all of the years that I've used it, there has always been
one annoying thing about the editing environment (well there are a
lot, but this is post is only about 1).  When you enter the line
command COLS, you get a nice scale on the line right after the
command.  But once you page forward, that scale is gone.

Does anyone know of a way in ISPF to have a scale, say on line 1 and
have it stay there even when paging forward or backward?

Thanks.


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"Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were
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-- Ernest Hemingway
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Steve

Er....no. But the columns applicable to the screen are listed in the top
right corner. You could always use BOUNDS to set the columns on view to
those you need to see.

In message <6emu40lpa35431uritr83501vv38bfn31q@4ax.com>, SkippyPB
<swiegand@neo.rr.NOSPAM.com> writes
>This is a question for you mainframers who do your COBOL programming

> When you enter the line
>command COLS, you get a nice scale on the line right after the
>command.  But once you page forward, that scale is gone.
>
>Does anyone know of a way in ISPF to have a scale, say on line 1 and
>have it stay there even when paging forward or backward?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>          ////
>         (o o)
>-oOO--(_)--OOo-
>
>
>"Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were
>forced to live on food and water for ws."
>-- Ernest Hemingway
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>Remove nospam to email me.
>
>Steve

--
Alistair Maclean

Lisa : Dad, what’s a Muppet?
Homer: Well, it’s not quite a mop and it’s not quite a puppet.

No, but you could set an Fkey up for that rather than typing it in all
the time. Of course, you gotta find a slot not used !

Bill

SkippyPB wrote:
> This is a question for you mainframers who do your COBOL programming
> in ISPF.  In all of the years that I've used it, there has always been
> one annoying thing about the editing environment (well there are a
> lot, but this is post is only about 1).  When you enter the line
> command COLS, you get a nice scale on the line right after the
> command.  But once you page forward, that scale is gone.
>
> Does anyone know of a way in ISPF to have a scale, say on line 1 and
> have it stay there even when paging forward or backward?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>           ////
>          (o o)
> -oOO--(_)--OOo-
>
>
> "Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were
> forced to live on food and water for ws."
> -- Ernest Hemingway
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Remove nospam to email me.
>
> Steve

In article <6emu40lpa35431uritr83501vv38bfn31q@4ax.com>,
SkippyPB <swiegand@neo.rr.NOSPAM.com> wrote:

> This is a question for you mainframers who do your COBOL programming
> in ISPF.  In all of the years that I've used it, there has always been
> one annoying thing about the editing environment (well there are a
> lot, but this is post is only about 1).  When you enter the line
> command COLS, you get a nice scale on the line right after the
> command.  But once you page forward, that scale is gone.
>
> Does anyone know of a way in ISPF to have a scale, say on line 1 and
> have it stay there even when paging forward or backward?

Yes, but it is an ugly way.

You can change the panel for the edit screen.  On your customized panel,
you can make the last static line before the data lines the ruler.

If you concatenate your personal panel ahead of the default system edit
panel the edit program will use your panel.

This solution might break every time your shop upgrades ISPF versions.

Why would you want to.
Thats what intelligent tabbing is for.
You set your tabs up once (e.g. for COBOL) and the editor remembers
them forever - well almost.


In article <6emu40lpa35431uritr83501vv38bfn31q@4ax.com>, SkippyPB
<swiegand@neo.rr.NOSPAM.com> wrote:

> This is a question for you mainframers who do your COBOL programming
> in ISPF.  In all of the years that I've used it, there has always been
> one annoying thing about the editing environment (well there are a
> lot, but this is post is only about 1).  When you enter the line
> command COLS, you get a nice scale on the line right after the
> command.  But once you page forward, that scale is gone.
>
> Does anyone know of a way in ISPF to have a scale, say on line 1 and
> have it stay there even when paging forward or backward?
>