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2.5 Nonselectable Items

Sometimes menu options or dialog items appear dim ('grayed') indicating that these options or dialog items are disabled and cannot be selected. On a monochrome screen, it is not possible to show nonselectable items as dim text; however, you can see which items are not selectable because no accelerator keys are shown for them.

Dialog items may not be available because of previous selections you made, such as selecting a particular check box or radio button. The 3270 emulation program disables a dialog item when it is no longer applicable, or when it can no longer be changed because of a previous selection. For example, if you select CICS as the host type in the File Transfer Options dialog box, the Units of space parameters at the end of the dialog box are not selectable because they do not apply to this host type.

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