Re: OT: ISPF Question

From: Joe Zitzelberger (joe_zitzelberger_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:31:39 -0500

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.

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