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No, really bay news!
> - Have any currently registered owners of SPF/SE heard anything from the
> company?
The last time I've been in contact with Tim Tetiva was 08/26/2008.
Bye,
Michael
A search of the internet failed to turn up any recent web addresses, new
owners or even recent conversations about the product.
- Does anyone have any contact information?
- Have any currently registered owners of SPF/SE heard anything from the
company?
So here I am, an MVS guy without SPF for my PC. Next thing you know
it�ll be an end to ISAM, CVOLS and reel tapes. Where will it all end?
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SPF/PC hasn't been updated since before Y2K. Their replacement product
is/was SPF/SE (SPF Source Edit), which does not have REXX support.
Dig out your old SPF/PC floppies and re-install it; that's as good as
it's going to get.
--
Rick
--
Remember that if you�re not the lead dog, the view never changes.
We also use SPF so I sent them an email and got this response.
Hello Don,
Oops. We just discovered what you had already known. Due to administrative
error, our URL had been allowed to expire. Our web site will be back on the
air in an hour or two.
Sorry about the inconvenience.
Tim Tetiva
CTC Sales
Don Bolton
Director Technical Services
www.OpentechSystems.com
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf
Of Brian Kenny
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 7:07 AM
To: IBM-...@bama.ua.edu
Subject: SPF/pc, Gone???
Recently I attempted to check in with Command Technology, authors of the
SPF/pc product, only to find the web site had expired and the phone numbers
in use by other companies/individual.
It has been some years since I last purchased the product (rexx support),
but
I continued to check in yearly to see if new feature would entice me away
from the old version. I did this as recently as late last year, and at that
time
saw no signs that they were about to pull the product.
A search of the internet failed to turn up any recent web addresses, new
owners or even recent conversations about the product.
- Does anyone have any contact information?
- Have any currently registered owners of SPF/SE heard anything from the
company?
So here I am, an MVS guy without SPF for my PC. Next thing you know it'll be
I've been in deep contact with Tim Tetia since Nov 2006. He did a lot of
enhancements for us (and bug fixes for some bugs I've found).
One of the greatest enhancements is the ability to edit files with a RDW
(Record Descriptor Word, the 4 byte length field of every RECFM=V
dataset). This feature is so flexible that we can also edit files
downloaded from a BS2000 Mainframe (with a 2 Byte length field) and also
binary AFP-Files (2 byte length field following a X'5A').
Furthermore Tim has realized a command history function for us and the
new command "FONTSET" which can be used to change the editor font at
runtime.
And last but not least, he added support for newer Micro Focus COBOL
Compilers (Net Express / Server Express) so one can use "MERGEMSG" to
merge error-messages into the edit session.
Oh yes, and he implemented the new option "SCREEN" for the "PRINT"
command that causes SPF/SE to print a "hardcopy" (prints exactly what is
shown in the editor).
SPF/SE is much more powerful as one might think if looking at the web
site....
Bye,
Michael
--
Yours sincerely
Michael Knigge
Development
S.E.T. Software GmbH
Lister Stra�e 15
30163 Hannover
GERMANY
Tel. +49 511/3 97 80-23
Fax +49 511/3 97 80-65
michael...@set-software.de
Handelsregister: HRB52778 Amtsgericht Hannover
Gesch�ftsf�hrer: Till Dammermann, Klaus St�hr
The CTC website is http://www.commandtechnology.com. However their
SPF/SE does not support REXX, or even numeric keyboard remapping.
I mentioned that mainframe 3270 emulators (e.g. TN3270 Plus and QWS3270)
do support keyboard remapping, but they replied they would not support
this (i.e. unlike SPF/PC):
Hello Chris,
SPF/SE 6.0 Standard Edition is closest to the obsolete SPF/PC 4.x.
All keyboard remapping supported by SPF/SE is found under OPTIONS, item
KEYS:
Standard Edition:
PF1-->12
SHIFT+PF1-->12
CTRL-PF1-->12
ALT-PF1-->12
CTRL+A-->Z (some exceptions)
ALT+A-->Z, 0-->9, some punctuation characters
3270-ENTER
Graphic Edition:
PF1-->12
SHIFT+PF1-->12
CTRL-PF1-->12
ALT-PF1-->12
CTRL+A-->Z (some exceptions)
3270-ENTER
We have no plan to offer any further mapping support.
Tim Tetiva
CTC Support
You can download a trial version of SPF/SE from their website if you
want to check it out.
Cheers,
Chris Poncelet,
CA