Re: Here's a fix for the sysreq problem

[pcunnane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Cunnane)]

>Okay, this is what happens on my IBM 3179-2 terminal:
>
>1) I hit SysReq.. 
>2) the terminal gives me a little line of underlines to type an option
>   on.  (this was never implemented in tn5250, and IMHO isn't important)

I disagree.  Most users here, and in every AS/400 site I have worked in, have 
gotten used to being able to quickly hit Shift-Esc, 1, Enter to switch to an 
alternate session.  Not allowing the shortcut slows this process down 
dramatically.  By the same token, Shift-Esc, 6, Enter is a wonderfully quick way
to check *SYSOPR messages, and so on.

Mild correction: it's not a line of underlines, it's an entry field with the 
cyan colour attribute (ergo column-separated), 78 characters wide on line 24.

[note: Shift-Esc is the default Client Access key mapping for SysReq.  It's a 
good one, because it's easy to do quickly.]

-- 
Paul

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