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Peter_Vidal wrote:
I am reading about this command and I was wondering if anybody:
a) ... has used it and how.
b) ... likes it.
c) ... recommends to use it.
Peter:
Like most things, it needs to be considered along with its cost.
STRCPYSCN can be extremely useful as well as handy. The issue of
being "one screen behind" is fairly minor in most circumstances once
it's viewed as being "one AID-generating key" behind. That means
that pressing the [Home] key can usually provide the current screen
image. (The cursor often must be away from the 'home' position due
an oddity in 5250 function.)
Although you said you couldn't use the [Attention] key to trigger
this, almost any means of invoking the command can be used. I have a
set of programs and commands that I can put on an [Attention] menu
to handle STRCPYSCN.
The intent was to allow users to run STRCPYSCN when they needed to.
The first of my commands starts STRCPYSCN to output to a new member
in a file. The user invokes the command in order to run through
whatever steps need to be captured.
Once started, the capture continues until the user invokes the
command that runs ENDCPYSCN. That command does a couple other things
including sending a message to a [Help] person that a new member has
been added. The message identifies all that's needed for the [Help]
person to start investigating.
Another command lets the [Help] person choose what member to review.
Once a choice is made, a simple program retrieves that session and
displays it a screen at a time. [PageUp]/[PageDown] navigates
forward and backward through the screens. Everything on each screen,
including whatever message might be on a message line, gets played.
A couple additional commands delete captured sessions and print
sessions. The printing is down through a logical file that includes
a translation table to clean up attribute bytes and a QM query that
helps format each screen in a kind of standard 'documentation'
format. The 'documentation' aspect has come in handy multiple times
for quick training.
It's a real poor-man's tool, but it was priced right. The basics
came with the system and the programming was simple. When I've made
it available to users, they've found it easy to use and easy to get
used to.
STRCPYSCN has it's drawbacks, but I wouldn't ignore it without
exploration first.
Tom Liotta
midrange.com
