Re: DSPFFD utility

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah - so my confusion - when you said UI, I thought you were referring to 
a graphical UI - now the light dawns!!

Vern

On 8/6/2019 7:58 AM, Craig Richards wrote:
> Hi Vern,
>
> I'm not really talking about a specific utility, but I can give you
> examples:
>
> YWRKF - a utility that used to come as part of the SYNON application:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synon
> WRKDBF - a popular but no longer maintained utility: http://www.wrkdbf.com/
>
> I recall using something called DspRcdFmt that I may even have written
> myself at a previous client's site.
> If I did, I didn't keep the source code.
>
> The point is that the system supplied DSPFFD uses the Display Spooled File
> UI, and it's not a very convenient output form.
>
> I've been playing Birgitta's suggestion of ACS schema a bit this morning
> and it's ok but I'm finding sometimes when I click "Definition" from the
> context menu of a table, it responds in about 5 seconds, other times it
> takes over a minute. I'll persevere for a while but I'm already thinking my
> life is too short for that.
>
> Don has kindly offered to send me the source of their in-house solution but
> I see Bradley has also kindly given me a link to lsttffd (which actually
> rings a bell also although I couldn't immediate say if I'm remembering
> using Bradley's utility at a previous site or if it was just a utility that
> I or someone else wrote with that name ) so I think I'll check that out.
>
> best regards,
> Craig
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