John > Of course, I'm "ass.u.ming" you follow the SBAs immediately with SF[E] orders....
In which case, it's the attribute one would have to worry about! Chris Mason On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:00:33 -0500, Chase, John <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Martin Kline >> >> My test showed system symbols were replaced by removing or adding >> characters as necessary. (Because I can't remember exactly how to get >> ampersands to diplay correctly on the list server and I'm too lazy to >look it up, >> my examples will use pound signs, '#', instead). >> >> For example '---#SYSNAME---' is displayed as '---SYS1---'. At least on >the >> 1.9 release I have installed. This does NOT display as '---SYS1 >---'. >> >> My advice is if you depend on exact positioning for the other >characters on >> the screen such as drawing a box around your data, or drawing a pic of >a >> dinosaur (like I do), then use SBA orders to position the trailing >data correctly. >> >> As Chris indicated, the other non-system symbols that can be replaced >do >> specify what happens with alignment, spaces, numerics, etc. The issue >is with >> the system symbols, because the names of the variables may be either >longer >> or shorter than the values that get substituted. >> >> Bonus question: >> >> If your USS message contains SBA orders, and the address happens to >end in >> X'7C', such as such as X'11C17C' for row 2 column 45 on an >80-character wide >> screen, and the following characters happen to match one of the >allowed >> keywords, what happens? Likewise, what happens when the SBA happens to >> end in X'50'? > >From the context in which you ask, I'd guess something "strange and >wonderful" occurs; but I've been too long away from "serious" 3270 >datastream coding to remember anything unusual about SBA addresses >ending with the values you cite. Of course, I'm "ass.u.ming" you follow >the SBAs immediately with SF[E] orders.... > > -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
