In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/21/2005
at 11:15 AM, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm out of the business end these days and I wondered whether or not
>there was some facility in REXX now to assist in creating 3270 data
>streams.
There are facilities in, e.g., CICS, GDDM, ISPF that you may be able
to use from REXX. I'm not aware of any IBM function packages to assist
in building raw data streams *or* to issue the necessary TSO macros.
I'm pretty sure that "say" uses TPUT EDIT, which is not what you want
for full screen applications.
>but I expect that, given that the range of codes for orders is
>X'00' to X'3F', one should avoid all these codes in data "written"
>from within a TSO REXX program.
They are not all in that range. It is prodent to avoid any code point
documented as a 3270 order, e.g., 7E.
>I have a vague memory of actual 3270 displays - as opposed to
>emulators on the PC - where the dimensions could be "customized".
3180, 3192, 3194, 3476 come to mind.
>3290s
I used to have lust in my heart for one of those.
>Clearly, since I've mentioned the 3290, each of say
>4 sessions is not going to be using the whole display surface.
I preferred to run a single session and to use SPLIT and VSPLIT to
chop it up dynamically.
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