RE: IBM Client Access cutting and pasting -- MIDRANGE-L

Now that you bring it up, I've been irritated since we moved our iseries to
V5R3.  I'm not sure if it was the OS/400 upgrade or the Iseries Access
upgrade (more likely) as we did both around the same time I think.

Formerly, I could use the copy/paste feature to copy fields from one 5250
screen to another (same screen, different session), and it would only copy
the input/output fields, apparently ignoring the static text on the screen.
But since the upgrade, it copies all of the text within the selection area
(input, output, and static), then tries to paste all that text into only the
input capable fields on the target screen, resulting in a mess.  

Before it was a little hit and miss.  On a busy screen with a lot of fields,
sometimes only some of them would successfully copy and I would have to do
another copy/paste to get the rest.  But now it seems much worse.  It was
very handy, for instance, if I wanted to use the DFU UPDDTA to create a new
record, I could copy all the fields from an existing record, then flip over
to another session and paste them into a new record, and just modify the key
fields, rather than having to type all the data.  Now that won't work,
except to the degree that I can manage to box only data within the selection
area, and not any of the field labels. Much less useful.  
 

 

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date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:14:33 -0600
from: "Trow, Jim" <J.Trow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: IBM Client Access  cutting and pasting

I experienced the same issue specifically after installing iSeries
Access v5r2 on a Windows 2000 toy.  

I suspect there may have been an iSeries service pack put out not too
long after the initial release which addresses the issue, as you will
find to be the case with v5r3 and the ability to do screen prints.  In
any event, I ended up grabbing a new i5/OS server and found the problem
immediately disappeared after installing the complimentary iSeries
Access v5r3.

If it is unique to v5r2, then I'm sure it was picked up on right away
and a service pack was published to correct it - check iSeries Access
support.  In the interim, your workaround is to simply open another
instance of PC5250 and use that one.  Keep repeating as needed...


Regards,
Jim Trow

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> Hello,
> 
> Has anyone experienced problems copying and pasting on the 5250
sessions
> with client access.
> After awhile it stops allowing me to paste. I am not sure if there is
a
> setting I need to change or if
> It is just confined to my computer.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Jose
>