RE: Attriburtes for a password field to hide characters but show the underline

Ah, yes, column separators!

DSPATR(ND CS)

In the current version of ACS, this shows column separator dots and keeps the data non-displayed.

- Dan Bale

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Subject: Re: Attriburtes for a password field to hide characters but show the underline

On 5/6/25 3:37 PM, Dan Bale wrote:

I don't know that I've ever seen an underline for a non-display field.
I just played with SDA and couldn't get it to work.

Depending on what terminal (or emulator) you are using, you might be able to get column-seps on a nondisplay field to work. It's been a while, but I think that when column separator suppression was made an option in the InfoWindow II series, nondisplay fields with column seps were made a specific exception: even if you have column seps turned off, they still display for attribute bytes x'37' and x'3F.'

Of course, TN5250J, while it does allow column separator suppression, it
*doesn't* do it in accordance with the InfoWindow II standard.

No idea what IBM's emulator does with this; I just know that MY emulator was designed to treat a *real* 3487 as the gold standard. And I *think* WRQ Reflection (anybody else remember that one?) did the same.

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