Here are a couple more articles that might shed light on your situation. 
You have to love all these articles Scott Klement wrote.
http://systeminetwork.com/article/automatically-refreshing-screens
http://systeminetwork.com/article/automatically-refreshing-screens-part-2
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Returning control to a program from a dspf without user input
A co-worker is writing a program in which he wants to display a screen 
with all output fields for a few seconds and then return control to the 
program without the user taking any action. When return controls to the 
program he wants to immediately display a window over the initially 
displayed screen. 
 
Something like
 
Exfmt Screen1 ;
  //no user input
  //wait about five seconds
Exfmt Screen2 ;
 
I've looked through the dspf keywords and nothing is jumping out at me. 
Any suggests on how to accomplish this?
 
 
Emily Smith
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