Chris Mason wrote: >This trick has nothing whatsoever at all to do with the content of mode tables or any alteration of the "standard environment". This is purely a matter of support for characters in the 3270 data stream implementation. Casting my mind back, I think the old 3279 may have imagined it was rendering a solid circle but it ended up the shape that requires skill to execute a "drop kick".
[ ... rest of very good educational notes snipped for brevity ... ] Ok. What about the ISPF attribute field, HILITE(BLINK)? I think if the OP wants blinking inside ISPF, he could use that? >You just need to put X'3F' into your data stream and make sure no busy-body programming which thinks it knows better does anything to mess with it. Interesting. According to my Ref Summary the x'3F' is 'SUB' and x'40' is 'SP'. I wonder what is 'SUB'? I know SP is SPACE. >[1] According to the Communications Server SNA Messages manual, USS stands for Unformatted *Session* Services - ho hum! :-D What version? My 1.10 SNA Messages does not show that, but I saw that ho-hum definition too in 'z/OS Communications Server SNA Diagnosis Volume 2: FFST Dumps and the VIT v1.10'! Ho-hum... ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

