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  3. July 2017

Re: Card swipe without a display screen

On 11 July 2017 at 17:44, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A card has a 111-character data strip on the back of the card. We can not
find an example, or figure out how to properly capture that data in our RPG
program. We can write a display file with a 111-char field (CNTFLD 37) and
successfully capture the data but none of us have ever seen magnetic stripe
data displayed on a POS terminal. Do others read magnetic stripes? Is so,
how?

Guessing the customer is using a 5250 as a POS terminal rather than
use an actual POS device? If so, consider making the 111 character
'scan code' field nondisplay and maybe CHECK(RA) (I think that's the
code for auto record advance). Then it doesn't show, but was
captured. The user will know it was scanned when the screen changes
to the 'customer is Fred Bloggs' display instead of the 'Please scan
now' display.
--buck

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