The Properties view displays property value information for a device
format component that is selected in the design canvas or Outline view.
Note: You must press the Enter key to commit properties changes and update
the Outline view.
MFS Device
You can set the following
Basic properties:
- Name
- Specify an optional device name that uniquely identifies this statement.
The length is from one to eight alphanumeric characters.
- Width
- Specify the maximum line width for this DEV type as one of the following
values:
- Number of print positions per line of input or output data
- Number of punch positions per card of input or output data
- Card width for card reader input data
- Type
- Set the device type and model number. Select a 3270 display or printer
device type from the drop-down list.
- Substitution
- Specify the character that MFS should use to replace any X'3F' characters
in the input data stream.
- DSCA
- Specify the default system control area for output messages that use this
device format.
- Print Lines
- Line Format
You can set the following
Features properties:
- Card
- This property specifies that the device has a 3270 operator identification
card reader. NOCD specifies the absence of the CARD feature.
- Pen
- Ignore
- Function Keys
- Data Entry Keyboard
You can set the following
Function Key properties:
- Device Field
- Function Key
- Function Key List
- Function Keys
MFS Division
You can set the following
Basic properties:
- Name
- Specify an optional name to uniquely identify this statement. The length
is from one to eight alphanumeric characters.
- Type
- Specifies the format as input-only (INPUT), output-only (OUTPUT), or both
(INOUT).
- Compression
- If this option is enabled, MFS will remove trailing blanks from short
fields, fixed-length fields, or all fields presented by the application program.
MFS Device Page
You can set the
following
Basic properties:
- Name
- Specify an optional name. The length is from one to eight alphanumeric
characters.
- Fill
- Specify the fill character for output device fields from the drop-down
list.
- Multiple Physical Pages
- This option enables multiple-physical-page input messages for the device
page.
Physical Page
You can set the
following
Basic properties:
- Cursor Row
- Specify the row position of the cursor.
- Cursor Column
- Specify the row column of the cursor.
- Device Field
Field
You can set the following
Basic properties:
- Width
- Specify the length of the field. This operand should be omitted if literal is
specified in the positional parameter—in that case the length of literal is
used as the field length.
- Row
- Specify the line number in the position of the field.
- Column
- Specify the column number in the position of the field.
- Page Number
- Specify the physical page number for an output field
- Label
- Specify an optional name. The length is from one to eight alphanumeric
characters.
- Value
- Specify a literal character string to be presented to the device.
- Password
- This option identifies this field as the location of the IMS™ password field
for input messages.
You can set the following
Attributes properties:
- Intensity
- Specify the display intensity of the field as normal (NORM), high intensity
(HI), or non-displayable (NODISP).
- Detectability
- Specify the detectability of the field through light pen operations.
- Protected
- Specify whether the field is protected from modification. For literal
fields, PROT is used and a specification of NOPROT is ignored.
- Numeric
- Specify whether the field should have the numeric attribute.
- Modified
- This parameter defines whether the field-modified-attribute byte should
be assumed for this field.
- Strip
- Specify whether the pen detect designator byte preceding the input field
should be stripped (STRIP) before presentation to the application program.
- Attribute Bytes
You can set the following
Extended Attributes properties:
- Highlighting
- Select the highlighting style from the drop-down list.
- Color
- Select the color from the drop-down list.
- Outline
- Select one or more locations to create the field outline.
You can set the following
Features properties
for an MFS table used by the OPCTL keyword by a DFLD.
- Table Name
- Action Label
- Operand
- Operator
- Value
- Action
- Next Condition
- Condition Name