Re: Card swipe without a display screen

If your POS is PC based just plug in a card reader and you can read the date into the keyboard buffer.

Your description isn't clear as to the hardware and software environment in use other than 5250.

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message: 4
date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:37:24 -0400
from: Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
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