Re: new display file features; was "4 - subfiles"

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

Yes, I remember that now!  Even if it did defeat the efficiency of 5250
block transmission (yada), surely it could be tolerable for the limited use such
as the search technique we were speaking of.  Are you aware of a way to
implement the character-at-a-time transmission in a non-OV environment?

- Dan Bale

James W Kilgore wrote:

AFAIK, OV/400 used a "text assist" feature that would do keystroke
feedback.

But as I responded to another post, this defeats the efficiency of 5250
block transmission and will degrade overall system performance.

Dan Bale wrote:
>
>
> I presume that what you mean by this is something that many Windoze apps
> utilize:  As a user types the search word, character by character, the
> application zeros in on the record in the "subfile" while each character is
> typed.  This would be the holy grail of AS/400 display file techniques (hokay,
> maybe not!) but requires the 5250 protocol to handle character-at-a-time I/O
> which, from my understanding, is not currently possible.





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