Re: Diabling Telnet Attention key

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>> Does anyone know how to disable this "feature" so that pressing the
>> Attention key does nothing?
>
> Write a proxy that detects the keypress for the ATTN key and "eats" it
> (does not pass it on to the telnet server)
>
> If the telnet server never receives the key, it can't possibly act upon
> it :)


But it ISN'T the AS/400 Telnet SERVER that processes the ATTN key; it's
the AS/400 Telnet CLIENT that brings up that *PNLGRP! You hit ATTN on any
other TN5250 client (such as the one I designed for our ThinView and
Wintouch products), and it brings up the Operational Assistant. Or
whatever the user has set. (Or nothing at all, if *NONE is set).

Besides, if you look at the locks for the job that's running the Telnet
CLIENT, and is in the ATTN *PNLGRP, you'll find that the lock on that
*PNLGRP is on THAT side, NOT the SERVER side!

In short, when that *PNLGRP appears, the Telnet SERVER hasn't received the
ATTN key (and won't, unless you select the option for the CLIENT to pass
the ATTN on to the server.

Maybe if you were to pre-empt that *PNLGRP with one of your own?

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JHHL