You mean the letter-a-going-up key.
Re:Hello World on z/OS
by bunderbunder on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @10:40AM
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Or perhaps the, "no, don't do that, that's confusing, that symbol is an honest-to-goodness letter" key.
Useful for typing words like pâte, infâme, or grâce. Except not at all.
Re:Hello World on z/OS
by forapurpose on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @04:07PM
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> Hilarious!
Give us the perspective from the other end of the learning curve: If you were the author, how would you start learning these things?
Re:Hello World on z/OS
by southern_cross on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @08:40PM
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Whenever I've laid hands on unfamiliar systems and their terminals, which has been a quite frequent occurrence over the years, one of the first things I've usually tried to do is get my hands on the terminal's handbook (or at least the condensed cheat-sheet version of it) to learn what all of its keys and key combinations did. (In this case the same would go for ISPF.) Assuming that the author is using some kind of 3270 emulation software, then she should have access to this stuff somewhere. In other words, she probably just needs to RTFM!
The best part is where they didn't know about the INSERT key. I can understand z and ISPF being a hassle if you're used to modern computing but the mainframe logic is actually logical, and probably predates whatever modern stuff you're on to... like "files". :)