Sounds like the dreaded Windows Scroll lock key. Pressing that will disable the arrow keys until Scroll lock is turned off. Now chances are your keyboard doesn't have a scroll lock key (most modern keyboards have dropped it as it does more harm than good), but Windows still has it internally. You can access it using the On-Screen Keyboard in Windows. Possibly the pushed software has changed keyboard mappings so that some other key that you innocently use has become the Scroll Lock key. Make sure it is off and see if your problem is fixed. PS. this has nothing to do with HOD or anything mainframe :)
On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 8:36 AM Steve Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all: > > A few weeks ago at a client site, they force installed software > on end user computers (owned by the client) and since then I've > been having odd issues with HOD (Host on Demand - 3270 emulator). > Today, arrow keys are not working. And if you get into the > keyboard configuration system, you can click on "Search for a > key" and it will go to the line where that key is defined so you > know what HOD thinks it is for. > > Well, the arrow keys stopped working. So these are supposedly > cursor movement keys. And striking one of them gets no response > (in HOD). > > They do work outside of HOD> > > Last time this happened it was the right "Alt" key being ignored > (which I have defined as <Reset>. I remap a keyboard to as much > as possible emulate a true 3270 keyboard. I rebooted, I reloaded, > and didn't make a difference. Someone had me reset the key, and > then it started working. No Joy today. > > Right+ALT is behaving today. But not the arrow keys. > > This seems to be something going on with Windows. > > Any ideas of how to cure this thing (NO, I do not have the option > of running other than HOD). > > Regards, > Steve Thompson > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
