Combining BMS and non-BMS output

Attention: This topic contains Product-sensitive Programming Interface and Associated Guidance Information.
A transaction can issue a series of BMS and non-BMS commands in order to build the contents of the 3270 display screen. This topic explains how the output from all the commands is combined to construct the HTML page which is displayed on the Web browser. The steps are:
  1. When a BMS or non-BMS SEND command is issued, an HTML page (containing a heading section, a screen image section, and a footing section) is generated, but not sent to the Web client.
  2. When the transaction issues a RECEIVE command, or terminates:
    • A heading section is selected from one of those which was generated previously.
    • A new screen image section is created by merging all those which were generated previously.
    • A footing section is selected from one of those which was generated previously.
  3. The resulting HTML page is sent to the Web client.