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Building a SINGLE screen for both update AND display of a cust record.

What is a good method to use ONE DDS record format for both UPDATE and DISPLAY.

For DISPLAY, I want the field protected and NO underline showing.

For UPDATE, I want the field unprotected with underline showing.


If the CUSTNAME field has usage "B" = both, how can I suppress the underline for DISPLAY?

(There is no DSPATR for removing the underlines).

I thought that CHGINPDFT might do the trick. However I cannot condition that on the mode DISPLAY or UPDATE.


Is the best method to describe each field twice?

For example


41 CUSTNAME B
N41 CUSTNAME O



It seems sloppy - any better ideas?

Thanks in advance!



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