Paul I couldn't agree more.
Until now I left this thread alone but having a peek at one of the responses floating by, I see it's all about 3270 data stream. Having now looked through the responses, I see a rather large flock of wild geese - or would it be a shoal of red herrings. What is being talked about here is a feature of the *original* 3270 data stream, namely the creation of a nondisplay field. In principle, this means that logmodes and related issues are totally irrelevant. I saw that the sample code provided by Tomas Fott works on a regular 3270 - as reported by Don Poitras. So, in principle, it's a valid technique to slip 3270 start field sequences into text output from a REXX Clist. It works with some emulators and not others and - I think - when it doesn't work, it's because the 3270 "order" characters are not being recognised. Pouring through the 3270 manual mentioned earlier might solve this but another way - for someone with a working setup and NetView Session Monitor to hand - using TRACE CPIU of course - could be to check that the start field sequences used in the usual output from TSO are using the same character values as the REXX Clist. Incidentally, since I saw someone talking about colours, there is a standard mapping of the *original* 3270 data stream fields to colours - green for unprotected normal intensity, red for unprotected high intensity, blue for protected normal intensity and white for protected high intensity. I don't know what colour is used for nondisplay. <g> Chris Mason ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
