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Re: 20 years ago

Hello Chris,

Am 17.08.2022 um 00:02 schrieb Hiebert, Chris <chris.hiebert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

I've always found it strange the IBM has resisted any updates to the Display File spec, or even the 5250 data stream in general.

I'm not. Why? a) IBM started relatively early to heavily push people towards browser based interfaces. b) 5250 works. c) IBM is all about backwards compatibility, maybe there was no clean way to expand 5250 data stream functions without breaking existing hardware terminals. d) Same goes for DDS, IBM perceives it as "finished" and didn't want to put time (and thus money) into changes, because a).

Although we can use DSPATR(&FIELD), then load the field is all the attributes you want, and get rid of indicators all together.

A DSPATR(&DSPATR02A)
A DSPATR02A 1A P

Yap, very helpful!

:wq! PoC




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