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Please choose the words carefully. Reverse engineering is illegal.
In many places it is perfectly legal. Only the US, which is run by corporations for the benefit of corporations, it's apparently not ...

I see the existing programs in shop are using this hidden field concept.
So why don't you ask the people who wrote those programs how they did it, rather than spending time here waiting for an answer ...

That stuff goes deep into ISPF internals and gets really ugly (and, I'm afraid undocumented and very subject to change). That'd be a can of worms no sane person would want to open without source cod ...

I know about HILITE DUMP and have used your VBCODE stuff in the past, but you also have a wonderful tool called ISPFHTML, and I was hoping that there would be a way to use REXX' "storage" fu ...

Is there a way of accessing the shadow variables for a panel from REXX. There are plenty of references to accessing the actual screen data, but what I'm looking for is something that gives me access t ...

You would probably need to do two searches with the 'LMTO' process option and use a SuperC compare on selected parts of the two output listings.

Just from the top of my head, not really any time t ...

Let me give you an insider's tip: There is a fairly well known website called Google, that apparently does a great job finding anything and everything on the web. Maybe you can use it?

You cannot use the ISREDIT environment outside the ISPF editor and that is exactly what you are now trying to do by invoking it using "ex 'what.ever.dsn(mymac)'"

Not so. Both macros can be (and are) run independently of each other. So if the user wants to run BACKUP, they can. If they want to run BOKACOPY (which CALLS backup) they can.

If I combined the 2, ...

Taltyman - don't want to combine the 2 macros for obvious reasons (potential double maintenance)

Excuse me for being stupid, but if you combine them you would only have to maintain one single macro ...

From ISFP main menu: PF1 (or HELP) - I - L - Enter - and start reading from about al LMxxxxx functions

Look like you don't need extra five bytes.

Just keep a copy of the client file for your boss and trancate it into another file for your application.

And, dear dimwit, what happens if those five ...

Tell your management that they are morons, and ask them to pass on the same message to your external vendor. It will solve all of your problems in one easy swoop, you will loose your job and the vendo ...

Suggest you make a copy of the file before mucking about with a "real" file.

That's why sensible people would use View rather than Edit...

Guess: remove the 'F' at the "Initial Macro" field on the Edit Entry panel...