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During a 3270 session, the bottom line of your display becomes the status line-an operator information area that presents messages about the current session. This appendix explains the messages and symbols that appear on the status line for the current session.
The way in which the status line is displayed on the screen depends on your terminal's hardware and software and on your 3270 customization, as follows:
If your terminal's hardware and its terminfo entry both support a status line to which user programs can write, you can customize 3270 sessions to write the 3270 status line to the terminal's status line. For more information about terminfo requirements, contact your System Administrator or refer to the SNAP-IX TN3270 Administrator's Guide.
If status line display is not supported by your terminal, or if you choose not to use it, the 3270 emulation program uses the last line of the terminal's screen to display the status line. If your terminal's screen has more lines than required for the 3270 emulation display (for example, if you are using screen model 2, which has 24 lines on a 25-line screen), the status line is shown below the 3270 emulation display. If not (for example, if you are using screen model 4, which has 43 lines on a 43-line screen), the status line shares the last line of the screen with the last line of the 3270 emulation display; pressing the STAT TOG (Status Line Toggle) key (default keystroke Ctrl + W) alternates between displaying the status line and displaying the last line of the 3270 display.
You have a choice between the following display modes for the status line:
The status line appears all the time.
The status line is blank unless a Do Not Enter or Communications Check message is displayed. It appears when a condition occurs that causes one of these messages and returns to blank when the condition is cleared.
The Status line displayed at startup
option in the Customize
Miscellaneous Options dialog box (see Customizing 3270 Emulation) specifies
which mode the program uses when it first starts up.
While the program is running, you can switch between the two modes using
the STAT TOG (Status Line Toggle) key (default keystroke Ctrl + W
). If you press STAT TOG while the status line is shown, the status
line disappears, and the status line display mode changes to on when
required
mode; that is, it reappears when there is a new Do Not Enter
or Communications Check message to be displayed. If you press STAT TOG while
the status line is not shown, the status line reappears, and the status line
display mode changes to always on mode.
If the status line is shared with the last line of the 3270 emulation
display, the STAT TOG key also switches between showing the status line and
showing the last line of the 3270 emulation display. If you press STAT TOG
while the status line is shown, to move into on when required
mode, the last line of the 3270 emulation display appears instead. If you
press STAT TOG while the last line of the 3270 emulation display is shown,
the status line appears instead.
The status line is always displayed as a separate line below the 3270 emulation display and is not shared with the last display line. The STAT TOG key is not supported in the Motif program.
When you use the RECORD or REPLAY keys (see Keystroke Recording and Replay), the status line display is temporarily replaced by a list of the identifiers assigned to recorded keystroke sequences. The normal status line display is restored when you select an identifier for the keystroke sequence to record or replay.
To obtain more information about the contents of the current session's status line, you can use the key STAT HELP (default keystroke Ctrl + O) to display a screen of help information. This screen interprets the status line information for the current session and displays it as text strings instead of the symbols used on the status line. The screen includes the following:
Session state
3270 emulation program state (for example a communications check code or a Do Not Enter message)
Input state (insert/replace, numeric)
Host session
Session ID (if one is assigned)
Last host response time
Name of the printer or file to which local copy printing on this session is directed
When you have finished viewing this help information, press STAT HELP again to remove it from the screen.
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