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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories ISPF
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 3, 2025

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Make Point-and-shoot fields uneditable

ISPF Point-and-shoot fields are of great help to ISPF users. They enable the user to conveniently "shoot" commands while being with the cursor in the context of the action. 

Point-and-shoot fields comes with another great User Setting: Tab to point-and-shoot fields! Using option 0 (Settings) in ISPF allows to set the tab key to move the cursor to point-and-shoot fields. Jointly, Point-and-shoot fields and Tab to point-and-shoot fields are amazing features of ISPF!

This idea is to further extend ISPF to enable protection of point-and-shoot fields, specifically, it is now the case that when setting the ISPF Setting "/  Tab to point-and-shoot fields", point-and-shoot become editable. It would be great is point-and-shoot fields remain uneditable even when the "Tab" setting is enabled. 

Useful references:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=section-formatting-attribute-statements
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=sections-defining-point-shoot-section
 

ISPF is  widely used by mainframes around the world and Point-and-shoot fields substantially improves the ISPF user experience. I look forwad to ear from ISPF development team on how Point-and-shoot fields will evolve

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editable point-and-shoot fields.png
Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Jan 22, 2025
    Based off of the 3270 architecture

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