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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories ISPF
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 16, 2015

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Add ISPF system variable(s) showing active window width /depth to be used with ZSCREENI and ZSCREENC Merged

Requesting ISPF system variables to show the actual width & depth of the active display window.

Particularly when the display width is set greater than 80, the ZSCREENW / ZSCREEND and the ZSCRMAXW / ZSCRMAXD always show the maximum values, even though the actual active window may be smaller.

That means that an application which gets ZSCREENI & ZSCREENC must make a guess about the active window width when trying to know the text for the whole window line where the cursor was placed. The length of ZSCREENI only reflects data displayed, hence one needs to know either the actual width or actual depth to get the text for individual lines of the active displayed window. Both actual values are not strictly necessary, because if you know the length of ZSCREENI and either the actual depth or the actual width you can easily calculate the other value.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 25, 2019

    This RFE is being closed as a duplicate of SHARE RFE 132594.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 20, 2018

    The fields that correctly correspond with the contents in ZSCREENI are found here:

    /* dump terminal depth */
    tlddmpdl = C2D(BITAND(STORAGE(D2X(tldptr+188),4),'7FFFFFFF'X))
    /* dump terminal width */
    tlddmpwd = C2D(BITAND(STORAGE(D2X(tldptr+192),4),'7FFFFFFF'X))

    Editing an fba 121 byte PDS member on a 43x132 terminal, ZCURWID will show 132 when tlddmp* above shows
    Dump = lines: 43 width : 129.
    ZCURDEP|WID = depth : 43 width: 132

    Going thru ZSCREENI by 129 yields proper lines. Using 132 immediately throws it off.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 17, 2017

    New system variables, ZCURDEP and ZCURWID, have been created to show the current screen depth and width in APARs OA50397 (V2R1) and OA51216 (V2R2). (The V2R1 APAR is available now, and we hope to have the V2R2 APAR available within the next couple of weeks.) Could you look at that APAR and see if it satisfies your need?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 15, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - ISPF

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - ISPF
    Component - ISPF

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 17, 2015

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #66461 in product ISPF.

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