Configure Auto Complete Dialog Box
How do I get to this dialog box?
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Open the Settings window.
The steps depend on your user interface mode.
User Interface Mode Steps Ribbon or Reflection Browser With a session open in Reflection, from the Quick Access Toolbar, click 
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On the Settings dialog box, under Productivity, select Configure Auto Complete.
The Auto Complete feature recalls what you type, and automatically makes suggestions to help populate fields as it learns common commands that are repeated. By default, typing is saved with the screen location, and suggested when you type at that screen location again.
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This feature is not available with VT sessions.
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To use Auto Complete with uppercase only fields, clear the Use case sensitivity for suggestions option. Uppercase only fields are required to support alpha data on Japanese systems. They are also common on IBM System i systems for which 5250 emulation is used.
Suggestions
| Setting | Description |
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| Use case sensitivity for suggestions | Clear this check box to have Auto Complete ignore case when you are typing in a host field. To use Auto Complete with uppercase only fields, clear this option |
| Make suggestions from all screen data | When selected, Auto Complete makes suggestions based on all user data that has been entered into any field used during the session. Field independent Auto Complete results in many more suggestions in many more screen locations. |
| Save suggestion data in session file | When selected, Auto Complete "remembers" the data entered during the current session, so that if the session is closed, and then reopened, suggestions will still be available. |
| Clear suggestions | Clears stored suggestions created from data entered by users. The next typed entry will begin creating a new set of data from which Auto Complete suggestions are made. |
| Characters typed before suggestions are made | After you type this number of characters, the suggestion pop-up appears. |
| Maximum number of suggestions | Select the maximum number of items you want Auto Complete to suggest for any word. |
| Maximum word length to offer suggestions on | Specify the longest word on which to apply Auto Complete. Longer words are ignored by this feature. |
Overwrite and Insert
These options determine how Auto Complete behaves when entering a definition into a field with pre-existing data.
| Setting | Description |
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| Wrap text into next field | If the Auto Complete suggestion pushes existing data past the end of the field, the additional data is added at the beginning of the next available field. |
| Erase to the end of the field after inserting Auto Complete suggestion | Select to have all other data in the field deleted after the Auto Complete suggestion is entered. |
| Insert mode | Select to maintain existing field data, with the Auto Complete suggestion inserted at the cursor location. If the insertion pushes existing data past the end of the field, the data is truncated. |
| Overwrite mode | Select to overwrite only the data that exists where the Auto Complete suggestion is being placed. Other data in the field will not be affected. |
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Auto Complete does not record typing in hidden-text fields such as passwords, nor does it offer suggestions to complete typing in such fields.
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