RE: Card swipe without a display screen

The card swipe keyboards I've worked with had a programmable feature so the
"ENTER" could be automatic after the swipe.
Yes to non-display
You may or may not have other types or mouse selected columns before the
swipe
So the act of swipe on the keyboard fills the character field, and automates
the ENTER, and you can edit and choose to send error to that screen - bad
swipe, we don't take that card.., expired card, etc or then move to the next
thing in your program.

Jim Franz

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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buck
Calabro
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 6:37 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: 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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