Pathmaker Programming Guide

Controlling Default Screen Layout
Creating Requesters
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Within the Screen Painter, multiple occurrences of a reference object are referred to
by the reference object name followed by a bracketed integer. In the previous
example, three repetitions of RECORD-NAME would be referred to as:
RECORD-NAME[1]
RECORD-NAME[2]
RECORD-NAME[3]
This bracketed name appears as the data field label on the default screen for
uncompressed and compressed format. This is how this record would appear in
compressed format with two repetitions:
RECORD-NAME[1]
Title1 ____________ Title2 ___________________________
Title3 _______________ Title4 ______
Title5 _________________________________________________
RECORD-NAME[2]
Title1 ____________ Title2 ___________________________
Title3 _______________ Title4 ______
Title5 _________________________________________________
Terminal Type. You can use the Requester Definition screen to specify the type of
terminal on which the requester will run.
Valid terminal types are:
6530 A terminal family manufactured and sold by Tandem. A 6530 requester can
be used on 6526 terminals, 6530 terminals, 6540 terminals, JET 6530, or on
any terminal that can emulate a 6530 terminal.
6520 A terminal model formerly sold by Tandem. A 6520 requester can be used
on any 6520, 6530, or 6540 terminal.
3270 A terminal family manufactured by other companies and used with NonStop
systems, including 3270 Kanji terminals.
The default terminal type is 6520.
You can change the terminal type of an existing requester. If you change the terminal
type, the Pathmaker product automatically remaps any function keys you assigned.
“Creating Requesters for 3270 Terminals” later in this section has further information
about equivalent function key assignments for 6520/6530 terminals and 3270
terminals.
Note If you change the terminal type from 6520/6530 to 3270, and then from 3270 to 6520/6530, the resulting
function key assignments might not be identical to the original function key assignments.