Most terminal attributes are supplied by the CICS® server
but some can optionally be determined by the user application.
Terminals can be either basic or extended. Extended terminals have more
attributes than basic terminals. An extended terminal can be purged while
a transaction is running but basic terminals can only be deleted when they
are in the idle state.
You can specify the following attributes as input parameters for both
basic and extended terminals:
- Model
- For autoinstalled terminals this is the name of an existing terminal definition
on the CICS server
which is to serve as a model for this terminal.
- Server name
- The name of the CICS server
where the terminal is to be installed.
- Netname
- The network name of the terminal. .
The following additional attributes can be specified for extended
terminals:
- Code page
- The code page used by the user application for data passed between the
terminal resource and CICS transactions.
- Install timeout
- The maximum length of time that the CICS Transaction Gateway
will wait for a terminal to be installed on the selected CICS server.
If not specified there is no limit to the wait time. Refer to Timeout of the EPI request for
more information.
- Password
- The password that is to be associated with the terminal for security checking.
- Read timeout
- The maximum length of time that the CICS Transaction Gateway
will wait for a response from the user application. If not specified there
is no limit to the wait time. Refer to Timeout of the EPI request for
more information.
- Sign-on capability
- Whether the terminal is capable of running a CICS sign-on
transaction. If not specified, the terminal has the default sign-on capability
of the CICS server
type. Sign-on capability and sign-on incapability are described in more detail
in Specifying terminal sign-on capability.
- Userid
- The user ID that is to be associated with the terminal for security checking.
The following attributes are returned to the user application
by the
CICS server
when a terminal is added:
- Color
- Whether the terminal supports color.
- Columns
- The number of columns supported by the terminal.
- Error last line
- Whether error messages are displayed on the last line of the terminal.
- Error message color
- The color used to display error messages on the terminal.
- Error message highlight
- The highlight value used to display error messages on the terminal.
- Error message intensity
- The intensity with which error messages are displayed on the terminal.
- Extended highlight
- Whether the terminal supports extended highlighting.
- Maximum data
- The maximum length of data that can be sent from and received by the terminal.
- Netname
- The network name of the terminal.
- Rows
- The number of rows supported by the terminal.
- Server name
- The name of the CICS server
where the terminal is installed.
- Sign-on capability
- The sign-on capability assigned to the terminal by the server.
- Terminal ID
- The terminal ID generated by CICS.