iTS 1.0+)

Data Division

Compaq NonStop™ Pathway/iTS SCREEN COBOL Reference Manual—426750-001

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Field-Characteristic Clauses

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 }