Re: DDS Window keywords

[martos@xxxxxxx]

>I am using the WINDOW keyword to display pop up boxes over screens.
>
>If I define the window as a format of the screen file being processed with
>the keywords
>
>WINDOW
>OVERLAY
>
>The window is displayed on top of the existing screen with the details
>still visible behind it . . . . .GREAT.
>
>BUT
>
>When I define the window screen as a seperate file with the same keywords
>it clears down the first screen and only shows the window screen in
>isolation. I can get round this by specyfing USRDSPMGT on the window
screen
>file - but this is a dirty fix harking back to S/36 days and I'd like to
>code it natively.
>
>Answers please . . . . .
>

You have to create dummy record format in DSPF with ASSUME keyword.
For example...

          R DUMMY
                                            ASSUME
                                        1  3' '

Pavol Martos
martos@pbko.sk


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