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I am surprised at how often I ask questions to which I already know the answers and discover I am absolutely completely wrong.

I have a drill-down application which, for discussion purposes, i will use this example:  states, and cities in those states. Subfile 1 lists the states, which of course will generally be a listing under 100, even if we include territories and Canada's provinces.  In other words, a nice, manageable load-all subfile with 1 fields, under 30 characters.  The idea is that a user can select a state (SNGCHCFLD, *NOSLTIND). which will hilite his/her selection, and then populate subfile 2 with cities from the selected state.

Subfile 2 will then have up to several hundred selections, still a snappy load-all subfile and a user may select as many cities as he /she wishes (MLTCHCFKLD, *NOSLTIND) and then do whatever action may be required against those selected cities.

There is a screen shot and the code at 2 subfiles <http://www.martinvt.com/SQL_-simple-/SQL_2_subfiles/sql_2_subfiles.html>

I would like to have a FOOTER format for the bottom of the screen and have 4 push buttons there: Enter, Exit, Refresh, and Next . The result is that I now have 3 formats (window1 with the states subfile, window 2 with the cities subfile, and FOOTER with the pushbuttons that I want all active and available to the user. Then the user may page either subfile, select a state or a city, or click a pushbutton. In other words I would like the application to be entirely mouseable within 5250 and not rely on user-settings in their ACS client.

How do I do that?  Can I do that?


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