Rational Developer for System z

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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