Contents v
Contents
About this Guide
Audience ...................................................................................................................xi
Model 204 documentation set ...................................................................................xi
Notation conventions.................................................................................................xi
1 Terminal Processing
In this chapter............................................................................................................ 1
Overview ........................................................................................................................1
Supported terminals, access methods, and interfaces .................................................. 2
Supported access methods....................................................................................... 2
Supported SNA Communications Server terminals .................................................. 2
Supported system interfaces..................................................................................... 2
Terminal emulators and the LANGUSER parameter ..................................................... 2
Entering input ............................................................................................................ 3
INMRL and INCCC parameters................................................................................. 3
Line continuation ................................................................................................... 3
Retrieving input .............................................................................................................. 4
RETRVKEY parameter.............................................................................................. 4
Using the Retrieve PF key......................................................................................... 4
Irretrievable input ...................................................................................................... 4
Retrieval example ..................................................................................................... 5
Null input lines........................................................................................................... 5
Controlling output........................................................................................................... 5
Setting OUTMRL....................................................................................................... 6
Setting OUTCCC....................................................................................................... 6
Setting OUTLPP........................................................................................................ 6
Pausing .................................................................................................................... 7
Backpaging ............................................................................................................... 7
Issuing a backpage request ...................................................................................... 8
Full-screen formatting .................................................................................................... 9
Prerequisites ............................................................................................................. 9
Menu feature ............................................................................................................. 9
Fill-in screens ............................................................................................................ 9
Backpaging screens and menus............................................................................. 10
Line-editing characters................................................................................................. 10
ERASE and FLUSH parameters ............................................................................. 11
Model 204 editors.................................................................................................... 11
Attention interrupt feature............................................................................................. 11
Invoking the attention interrupts.............................................................................. 11
ON ATTENTION statement..................................................................................... 12
Echoing ........................................................................................................................ 13
Physical and logical line echo ................................................................................. 13
Echoing parameters ................................................................................................ 13