Chris, I meant about the message posted by someone prior to yours.. A sample REXX code(control display)..
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Chris Mason <[email protected]>wrote: > Jags > > It's not at all clear from this response that you managed to extract the > message from the frivolity in my previous message that > > >>>>> HAVING A BLINKING MESSAGE JUST ISN'T SENSIBLE <<<<< > > It was tried with NLDM around the early 1980s and it failed miserably! > > Now, if you, as you propose, need to get to setting up your 3270 data to > the > level of setting up a "blinking" attribute following an SFE (start field > extended) > character you may as well go the small extra step of setting up a > "blinking" > attribute following an SA (set attribute) character which operates at the > level > of just the following text character and do as I did, namely, substitute > what > would be a blank, X'40', between the words of your message with a "rugby > ball", X'3F', - I don't know the official name - character. > > For help with the programming of the 3270 data stream see the following: > > 3174 Establishment Controller Functional Description, GA23-0218-11 > > http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/cn7a7003/ > > I hope that's clear this time. > > Chris Mason > > > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:36:13 +0530, jagadishan perumal > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >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
