Rational Developer for System z

Adding, deleting, or renaming a screen operation

In the Outline view, you can add, delete, or rename a screen operation in a screen operations file that you are editing.
Note: When you are using the screen operations editor and you have made changes to a screen operations file:
To add a screen operation:
  1. Verify that the screen operations editor is open and that the Actions tab is selected.
  2. In the Outline view, right-click the name of the screen operations file (for example, flow04) that you are editing.
    Tip: If the Outline view is not visible, see Opening or reopening a view.
  3. Click Add New Screen Operation menu entry.
    Note: If the Add a new operation menu entry is disabled this means that the screen operations file already contains a screen operation for each screen description that you have defined in the terminal application folder.
  4. The screen operations editor opens the Add a New Operation window.
  5. Select the screen description for which you want to create a new screen operation.
  6. Click OK.
    1. The Add a New Operation window closes.
    2. The screen operations editor adds a new, empty screen operation to the end of the screen operations file.

To delete a screen operation:
  1. Verify that the screen operations editor is open and that the Actions tab is selected.
  2. In the Outline view, right-click the name of the screen operation that you want to delete (for example, OperationIn_1).
    Tip: If the Outline view is not visible, see Opening or reopening a view.
  3. Click Delete.
  4. The screen operations deletes the screen operation and its contents from the screen operations file.

To rename a screen operation:
  1. Verify that the screen operations editor is open and that the Actions tab is selected.
  2. In the Outline view, click the name of the screen operation that you want to delete (for example, OperationIn_1). The screen operations editor displays the properties of the selected screen operation in the Properties view.
    Tip: If the Outline view is not visible, see Opening or reopening a view.
  3. In the Properties view:
    1. Click the Name property. (You can click either in the Property column or in the Value column.)
    2. In the Value column, type the new name and press the Enter key.
    Tip: If the Properties view is not visible, see Opening or reopening a view.


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