Re: Absolutely neceesary DDS keywords

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:51 02/11/1999 +0000, Chris Chanbers wrote:
>After 10 years of working with DDS migrated from S/36's using migration
>tools I am starting from scratch and creating a new system with no
>reference to this old inherited code.
>
>I have not included in the new DDS :
>
>ALWROL, INVITE, SLNO(01) and CLRL(*ALL)
>
>All are keywords which I had previously assumed to be necessary. I can
>still overlay window screens on top of this and retain all the
>functionality I would normally expect.
>
>SO. . . . my question is - are any of these necessary, will I experience

Not necessary. These keywords function in conjunction with USRDSPMGT to
emulate the behavior of displays on the S/36. ALWROL doesn't do anything
for RPG. It is only useful for Cobol AFAIK. INVITE can be useful if you
want your display to time out, otherwise it's generally more of a hindrance
than a help. SLNO and CLRL can generally be supplanted with the OVERLAY
keyword, but they might come in handy in some very specialized situations.

Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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