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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories ISPF
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 14, 2017

ISPF EDIT NUM BLANKS mode

ISPF should support an EDIT NUM mode that behaves like numbers are on... except that it does nothing with the numbers "field" except set them to blanks. Suggestion is a NUM ON BLANKS command that would put the ISPF EDIT session into this mode. Along with this, it would also be desirable to be able to make ISPF EDIT default to this mode for fixed-80 data that has blanks at the end of every line.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jun 15, 2017

    With NUM ON STD NODISPL, I am basically prevented from entering data in columns 73-80 - and I don't see those columns. And I can use the space bar to push data to the right (toward column 72) - even though there is "data" in columns 73-80. This is the kind of behavior I would like to see with this support. Today, after UNNUM, I see all the way to column 80 and I can very easily make a mistake and write into columns 73-80.