Re: Altering field display attributes by user without touching DSPF s ource

A GUI package should do the job without ANY change in the
AS/400-environment.

I've been looking at one of them - NewLook - reputated for simplicity
in use but not in functionality. Installation of the demo took 30
minutes, 180 min to find out what it's all about and then finally 30
minutes to remove the copyright notice from the signon-display and add
an xxx background. Next screen was modified in 5 minutes.
Basicly ist's just an 5250 emulator (like CA/400), which can do
something special on special conditions (like CA/400 "HotSpot").
Best of all: You can maintain all definitions centrally.

Btw: We don't use it! Why? Because NewLook has a per-client license
policy. Maybe another GUI package is cheaper?

Henrik
http://hkrebs.dk



> We're running a ERP package, BPCS as it happens, and the company is
after
> some form of field level security by user.
>
> They're basically looking to protect or non-display specific fields.
>
> We've identified 50 odd programs with affected display files.
>
> We don't want to go and modify the program code.
>
> We've considered  copying the dspf source and creating a set of
Display
> files in a separate library with the particular fields DDS
attributes set
> to
> PR/ND and loading this library higher in the library list than the
std DSPF
> based on user.
>
> Is there any way of grabbing the buffer or bit stream sent to the
display
> (5250 emulation used in all cases I believe) and altering the
attribute
> settings at that point?  If so how and what skill set would we need
to
> acheive this?
>
> Thanks in advance


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