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jim haire · Beginner Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 140 Topics: 40

I would like to be able to determine the record number my cursor is on within a browse session.

Not the line number on the screen. The record number within a file. Is there any good algorithm to do this?

In edit or view mode, this is easy. With files that are too large and are in browse mode, I haven't found a consistent way to determine this.

kolusu · Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 3:52 pm Post subject:

jim haire,

Did you look at this?

CURSOR-BASED BROWSE MACRO - defined in ISPF ISPEXEC library as CB

Kolusu

semigeezer · Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 10:57 pm Post subject:

trying to get the line # will be tricky. You probably have to go against variables ZSCREENI and ZSCREENC but even that has idiosyncrasies that are hard to predict (things like split screen, PFSHOW ON/OFF, action bars, how the exec is started, etc).

Best bet is probably to create your own browse panel and vput line# at the top and the cursor offset to the profile pool. Then calculate the line # based on screen width (another effort plagued with odd idiosyncrasies, unfortunately)
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