Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.6

Overview of the actions

An action is an operation that is performed as part of the processing of an application screen.

The following table describes the four types of actions:
Table 1. Types of actions
Type of action: Operation:
AID key action Generates an AID (Attention Identifer) key and specifies a final cursor position for the current application screen.1
Input action

Types a sequence of input keys into a specified field in the current application screen.1

Extract action Reads text from a specified field or from a rectangular area of the current application screen.1
Insert action Writes text into a specified field of the current application screen.1
1 Here the "current application screen" means the application screen matching the screen description that is associated with the screen operation containing the screen interaction that contains the action.
A single screen interaction (which provides the actions for a single application screen) can contain the following actions:

When a screen interaction containing a set of actions is associated with an application screen during flow recording, then the host editor generates for each action a mapping that performs the operation by the information in the action (see How actions are implemented in mappings: AID key, Input, Extract, and Insert).


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