Cursur position on pressing HOME key

vinu78 · Active User Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 179 Location: India

Hi all,

My requirement is to posiiton the cursor on a particular field when HOME key is pressed.

I have tried moving -1 to that field through program but when Home key is pressed, it is going to the first unprotected field. Is there any way that we can control the cursor position on pressing HOME key ?

Thanks
Vinu

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:53 am

I don't think this will work, because the "Home" key is not a valid 3270-value.

Look in CICS copybook DFHAID and see if you find this definition.

If not, then there's no way to know whether "Home" (or "Not At Home"

) was pressed unless your using some sort of keyboard mapping emulator.

Here's what you can do. Place the transaction under CEDF, go to task termination and say "Yes". As soon as the screen is displayed, press the "Home" key and review the value in EIB field EIBAID.

Bill

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:08 am

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:12 pm

Hello,

If the program places the cursor on "field 6" and then the user presses the "Home Key" why should the cursor not reposition to the first unprotected field?

If the cursor was where it was supposed to be, why was it moved?

Possibly the fields need to be re-arranged?

vinu78 · Active User Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 179 Location: India

Thanks for the reply.

The program places the cursor on the ITEM NO (second unprotected field in the screen) and that is what is required. So in the initial load, the cursor will be at the ITEM NO field only. The reqt is that when the user presses HOME key, the cursor should be at this ITEM NO field only. But now it is going to the NEXT ID (first unprotected field).

I tried searching for the equivalent EIBAID value when HOME key is pressed but not able to find it out..

As Bill and Enricoo has mentioned, if HOME key is hardware defined, then I think this can't be done, right

Thanks
Vinu

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:07 pm

that' s exactly what we are trying to make You understand !

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:56 pm

Hello,

Earl Haigh · Active User Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 475

if you are using a 3270 Terminal emulator , such as TN3270 or hummingbird,

map your keyboard home key accordingly, and it will work.

If you have old technology physical 3270 terminal, your out of luck.

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 3:16 am

Earl,

I wrote an XEIIN GLUE-Program, which actually checked for some crazy emulated aid byte (X'89') that the users wanted for a "Hot Key" to return to the Main Application Programmer Menu, no matter where they were in the system.

I had to check the R1 parmlist of the current CICS API and when I found a RETURN TRANSID t/w this X'89' Aid-Byte, (this is where it gets ugly), I built an XCTL parmlist on the fly (no commarea though), on top of the RETURN TRANSID parmlist, changed the existence bits and provided the name of the Main Menu program, returned to XEIIN and the XCTL actually worked!

The only thing about XEIIN that I don't like is that it gets invoked for EVERY CICS API, so the up front logic to get out ASAP had to be finite and tight.

I have this exit socked away "Somewhere"?

But, it was fun....

Bill