Re: Enhanced 5250 screen - two active windows?

Booth,

Long time i looked into this. So from memory.

you forgot to mention the 2 SFLCTL formats required as well.

Difficult to do, as only one window can be active at the time. A user has first to click the window to activate it then click a scroll bar or a push button, etc. This requires the RTVCSRPOS key word in the DDs, as it returms the active record format (for SFL it may be the SFLCTL one).

Regards,

Carel Teijgeler


Op 17-1-2018 om 21:47 schreef Booth Martin:

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?