Re: PC5250 not accepting input

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dude! You got a Dell!

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:07 AM, <smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm unable to reproduce this.
> IBM i 6.1
> 5761XE1 IBM System i  Access for Windows.   PTF  SI32504 is the latest PTF
> applied to this LPP.
> Running Personal Communications 5.9 dated 20080919 S
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> Are all of the PCs from the same manufacturer?  I'm running on a Dell.
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> Steve
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> I know this thread had basically died out before I responded, but I think
> I'm on to something here.
> I can reproduce this problem on all three of my V6R1 early adopters, but
> IBM says they can't reproduced it. Can anyone else with V6.1 (iSeries
> Access, not necessary the server OS) give it a try?
> Read below, but but be sure to move the cursor off the input field and
> press PageDown/End a bunch of times (three should do). Then try function
> or "enter".
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> One of my users also manages to something that gets his session
> 'disconnected'. Not sure what that is all about, but I'm not sure I'm
> ready to deploy 6.1 to the desktops yet.
> The next service pack for 6.1 is due out end of June,
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> Tom
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> Tom Kreimer
> Network Manager
> Buckhorn Inc, Milford OH
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> I had to dig this thread out of the trash from yesterday, as the problem
> just started occurring  to me today!
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> I can reproduce it by fat-fingering multiple keys at once while the cursor
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> is not on an input field. The only keys I've found so far are the end &
> page down at the same time three times (listen to three bells) and then
> the function keys quit working. Those two keys are right next to each
> other on my laptop, and I hit them while trying to page down someplace
> where I could not. I am on  the latest, V6R1 SI32504.
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> Tom Kreimer
> Network Manager
> Buckhorn Inc, Milford OH
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> I have seen this happen for as long as I have been using Client access.
> And in previous versions, I needed to do A FULL REBOOT to get the key
> functions back. I'm happy that now all I need to do is a restart of the
> application.
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> Why can't Client access have a menu option to "restart the key mapping",
> so the user doesn't have to kill their telnet session?
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> Porterfield, Sean wrote:
> > > From: Mark Walter
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> > > Did anyone ever have an issue where PC 5250 (V5.9) wouldn't accept
> > > input (I.e. Enter, Function Keys, etc, etc)? I can type in fields
> > > on the screen. I can use a field exit and keys like that, it just
> > > won't accept function keys or enter.
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> > Yes, typically if I type something when the screen is updating.  Attn
> and sys-req have historically been the most likely to cause this problem,
> though in the latest and greatest PC5250 (Version 5.9  20080919 S) I've
> had it happen "frequently" on other keys.
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> > Sean Porterfield
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