Chris, great humour(JAGS MAIN).... I am trying out the option for getting blinking message
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Chris Mason <[email protected]>wrote: > Jags > > Probably we should have the name of the list changed from IBM-MAIN to JAGS- > MAIN! > > > instead is it possible to just have a blinking Message.... > > Indeed, arranging to have a field of characters or individual characters > blink is > a possibility offered by the extension of the basic 3270 data stream > capabilities introduced in the latter end of the '70s - at about the same > time > that the 3279 and colour brightened our 3270 lives. > > Back in the early days of the Network Logical Data Manager (NLDM) product - > which, because the task of installing independent components over the > programming environment supplied by the Network Communications Control > Facility (NCCF) product together with the Network Problem Determination Aid > (NPDA) product was just too complicated for the poor lambs of system > programmers at the time, later became integrated into NetView - some bright > spark of a developer came up with the wizard wheeze of an idea to have > blinking messages - what fun!!! > > The trouble is - to the accompaniment of many words coloured according to > the IBM colour - nobody could <many expletives deleted> actually manage to > read the messages unless they were prepared to rest their eyes in a dark > room afterwards and probably book an ophthalmologist's appointment. > > I believe an APAR swiftly followed to get rid of this quite ridiculous > technique > to highlight messages! > > However, there was the germ of a good idea here and I decided to try out a > massively more practical version in a little transaction program I wrote - > for > managing the 3270 printer authorisation matrix interactively - initially > for CICS > and then NCCF when the necessary programming became available. > > Rather than have the *text* of the error messages blink, the cause of the > hullabaloo or brouhaha - whichever you prefer - with the NLDM messages, I > replaced the blanks between the words, X'40', with X'3F' and had these > individual characters, in some 3270 display implementations having the > appearance of a football as used when following the rules of Rugby School > or > that barbaric full body armour American derivation, blink. > > Thus I achieved the objective of drawing attention to the error messages > while maintaining readability, the best of both worlds, as it were! > > Chris Mason > > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:43:53 +0530, jagadishan perumal > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Thanks then the constant moving could prove a tedious time... instead is > it > >possible to just have a blinking Message.... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
