Pathway/iTS SCREEN COBOL Reference Manual (H06.10+, J06.03+)

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Field-Characteristic Clauses
OFF
specifies that GROUP-SEPARATOR is not available for the current screen.
If this clause is omitted, the group-separator character is a semicolon (;).
If used, the GROUP-SEPARATOR clause must be specified at the 01 screen level.
The character defined for GROUP-SEPARATOR cannot be specified for another input-
control character.
RESTART-INPUT Clause
The RESTART-INPUT clause defines the characters used to restart input processing
during the current ACCEPT statement. The RESTART-INPUT clause is recognized
only by terminals operating in conversational mode.
" nonnumeric-literal "
is one or two alphanumeric characters enclosed in quotation marks.
numeric-literal
is one or two integers. Each integer must be within the range of 0 through 255.
numeric-literal is the decimal value of an 8-bit binary number.
If a process is responding in place of a terminal, SCREEN COBOL interprets the
8-bit pattern (two numeric literals convert to a 16-bit pattern) as a nonkeyboard
character.
OFF
specifies that RESTART-INPUT is not available for the current screen.
If this clause is omitted, the restart-input characters are two exclamation points (!!).
If used, the RESTART-INPUT clause must be specified at the 01 screen level. A
character defined for RESTART-INPUT cannot be specified for another input-control
character. If the current ACCEPT statement is restarted, the data entered before the
restart-input characters does not change the values of the associated data items in
Working-Storage. If data is entered on the same line following the restart-input
characters, the data is ignored.
Field-Characteristic Clauses
Field-characteristic clauses specify various characteristics of screen fields. These
field-characteristic clauses have the following syntax and are described in alphabetic
order in the following paragraphs.
RESTART-INPUT [ IS ] { " nonnumeric-literal " }
{ numeric-literal [, numeric-literal ] }
{ OFF }