Re: fixed format data entry

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

James, Richie,

At 01:14 AM 8/16/99 -0700, you wrote:

>Since the 5250 display stream -requires- a space between fields/constants
for the
>display control codes, you will have to display as two separate fields and
use a
>data structure to process as a single field.
>
>The display would be aaaa - bbbb where there is a screen blank space on
each side
>of the "-".

>> The "-" is part of the value to be written on the database. I would
>> just like to have the "-" on the screen to spare the user from extra
>> typing, and minimize errors.

 Actually, depending on the WS controller and terminal hardware (and I
supposed emulation) you can use the EDTWRD / EDTMSK combo in DDS to get the
desired result.

 -mark

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