Guardian Programming Reference Summary for pTAL and TAL

SETMODE Operations
Guardian Programming Reference Summary for pTAL and TAL—522631-001
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<function> Parameters and Effect
50 Enable/disable 3270 COPY
param1=
= 0 suppress COPY
= 1 allow COPY
51 Get/set 3270 status
param1 status flags mask to set
The param2 parameter is not used with function 51.
Refer to the Device-Specific Access Methods–AM3270/TR3271 manual for the
flags mask information.
52 Tape drive: Set short write mode
param1
= 0 allow writes shorter than 24 bytes; a record shorter than 24 bytes is padded
with zeros to a length of 24 bytes (default).
= 1 disallow writes shorter than 24 bytes.
= 2 allow writes shorter than 24 bytes; no padding is done on records shorter
than 24 bytes.
param2 is not used with function 52.
Note:
When short writes are disallowed, an attempt to WRITE or WRITEUPDATE a
record that is shorter than 24 bytes causes error 21 (bad count) to be issued.
53 Enable/disable receipt of status
param1
= 0 disable status receive
= 1 enable status receive
param2 = the response ID
54 Return control unit and device assigned to subdevice
The param1 parameter is not used with function 54.
The param2 parameter is not used with function 54.
last-params
[0]
.<0:7> = 0
.<8:15> = subdevice number known by AM3270
[1]
.<0:7>= standard 3270 control-unit address
.<8:15>= standard 3270 device address