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3270 Display Sessions

The display session window presents information from the mainframe, bringing the same capabilities of a mainframe terminal to your PC. Extra! can emulate one or more sessions at a time, giving you a display session window for each terminal emulated. While you work in a display session window, your PC keyboard no longer generates PC characters, but instead produces 3270 display keyboard characters and special functions. Each display session has its own connection to the mainframe.

Extra! can emulate mainframe terminal models 2, 3, 4, and 5. These models differ by the number of rows and columns of text that they display. The host graphics features in Extra! provide graphics terminal emulation.

You use the Display Settings pages to define options for a 3270 display or graphics session. Depending on your specific requirements, you may want to make changes to the appearance of your display or graphics session window.

Use the following tabbed pages to define your session window:

  • General: Use this page to select the display or graphics model for your session window, the appearance of the graphics cursor, and support for extended attributes, and program symbols.

  • Host Code Page: Use this page to specify the type of host code page you need to use for your display session. If you are not sure which country and code page you should be using, check with your system administrator.

  • Miscellaneous: Use this page to select numeric field override, keyboard auto reset, word wrap, and the APL (A Programming Language) mode for your keyboard map. You can also use this page to access the Print utilities, and mouse options.

  • Attributes: Use this page to set options to show field attribute values, mark unprotected fields, display text as uppercase only and enable host beep. This page also provides options to change the appearance of blinking text and the cursor.

To define settings for 3270 display sessions

  1. From the Edit or Options menu, choose Settings.

  2. Click Display from the Category list to open the Settings - 3270 Display pages.

  3. From the General page, set the appropriate display session options.

  4. From the Host Code page, set the appropriate host code options, listed below.

  5. From the Miscellaneous page, set the Numeric Field Override, APL, Word Wrap, Keyboard Auto Reset, and mouse options.

  6. From the Attributes page, set the appropriate attributes options, listed below.

  7. Click OK when you have finished defining your display settings.

To define settings for 3270 graphics session

  1. Open a display session in Extra!.

  2. From the Settings dialog box, select Display.

  3. From the General page, set the appropriate display session options.

  4. Choose the Graphics Display options.

  5. Choose the Cursor options

  6. Choose the OK button to save settings and return to the session.

  7. Select Yes in the dialog box to disconnect from your current session and to start the graphics session.

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