And by CP SET VMOUT you meant CP SCREEN VMOUT of course...

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Bruce Hayden <bjhay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are a few options.  The easy one is to turn highlighting on and
> off, which will make that part white:
> 'CP SET VMOUT DEFAULT'    /* Must be default for this to work */
> hi = '1DC8'x
> lo = '1D40'x
> Say 'There has been an 'hi'error'lo
>
> The other way that works for entire lines is to set the VMOUT setting.
> 'CP SET VMOUT RED'
> say 'This is an error'
> 'CONWAIT'   /* Wait for output to display */
> 'CP SET VMOUT DEFAULT'
>
> Finally, there is a lot of flexibility in full screen CMS, but the
> operators woud have to run with fullscreen on.
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Karl Kingston <karlkings...@ongov.net> 
> wrote:
>> Does anybody have any tricks on how to do highlighting in a rexx "SAY"
>> statement?    What about setting colors for an extended attributes?
>>
>> I'm working on writing an Rexx exec to let our operators know which of our
>> z/Linux machines are up, are supposed to be up, and are down.   So if I can
>> do colors, that would be nice.   But at the very least, I need hilighting.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Bruce Hayden
> z/VM and Linux on System z ATS
> IBM, Endicott, NY
>

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