Changing the current host session colors
This help file describes how to change color settings for your host session.
For an overview of host session color settings, refer to
Understanding session colors.
Users who are running the Alternate Terminal user interface
have a different window for setting colors.
Refer to Set Screen Colors (Alternate Terminal) for more information.
To change the colors of screen elements, take the following steps:
- Either select the attribute on the left side of the window or click an area of
the screen to automatically select the attribute.
The color mapped to that attribute appears in the Sample box.
The available categories and elements are listed under
3270 attributes, 5250 attributes,
and VT attributes.
- For Java 1 browsers, to select a new color, click the desired color in the color bar.
To change to an exact color, click the custom color icons to set RGB (red, green, and blue) values.
For Java 2 browsers, select the desired color from the Foreground and Background color drop-down menus. If the color
you want is not listed, click the custom color icons to the right of the foreground and background fields to choose a new color.
This window
provides a variety of color selections capable of producing a range of contrast levels and
allows you to select custom colors based on their numerical values for hue/saturation/brightness values and red/green/blue
values.
- Click OK to accept changes made and return to the session.
Click Cancel to cancel all changes and return to the session.
Click Undo to undo the most recent change.
Clicking Undo repeatedly will undo all recent changes in the order they were made, up to the point of when changes were started.
Click Reset All to overwrite the profile customized colors to the program default colors.
The Reset All changes can be undone with the Undo button.
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- Color mapping is unique to a specific session. It is
saved with the icon that launched the session in your account-file
(HOD.[your_id].user) on the server from which the session was loaded.
- You can use the remapped colors with every session you launch from the same icon but
not with sessions launched from other icons (unless they are copies of the original session made after the colors were remapped).
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3270 attributes
The basic attributes include:
- Normal, unprotected
- Intensified, unprotected
- Normal, protected
- Intensified, protected
The extended attributes include:
- Blue
- Green
- Pink
- Red
- Turquoise
- White
- Yellow
- Default intensified
- Default
The graphics attributes include:
- Default
- Blue
- Red
- Pink
- Green
- Turquoise
- Yellow
- White
- Black
- Dark Brown
- Orange
- Purple
- Dark Green
- Dark Turquoise
- Mustard
- Grey
- Brown
The OIA color attributes include:
- Status indicators (readiness, system connection, shift and modes, and insert-mode) inform you of the current terminal status.
- Information indicators (system lock and wait, which is the clock symbol) appear infrequently and do not require any particular action from you.
- Attention indicators (machine check, communication check, and program check) indicate unpredictable situations that occur from time to time in response to operator or system actions.
- Error indicators (what?, wrong place, too much data, numeric data only, what number?, minus function, operator not authorized, minus symbol, and rejected message) indicate conditions that the system regards as erroneous and occur whenever a given action has been made in a given circumstance.
- OIA background
The Other category has one attribute:
5250 elements
The field color attributes include:
- Green
- White
- Red
- Turquoise
- Yellow
- Pink
- Blue
The OIA color attributes include:
- Status indicators (readiness, system connection, shift and modes, and insert-mode) inform you of the current terminal status.
- Information indicators (system lock and wait, which is the clock symbol) appear infrequently and do not require any particular action from you.
- Attention indicators (machine check, communication check, and program check) indicate unpredictable situations that occur from time to time in response to operator or system actions.
- Error indicators (what?, wrong place, too much data, numeric data only, what number?, minus function, operator not authorized, minus symbol, and rejected message) indicate conditions that the system regards as erroneous and occur whenever a given action has been made in a given circumstance.
- OIA background
The Other category has one attribute:
VT attributes
The base color attributes include:
- Normal
- Bold
- History Normal
- History Bold
The ANSI attributes include:
- Blue
- Green
- Pink
- Red
- Turquoise
- White
- Yellow
The OIA color attributes include:
- Status indicators (readiness, system connection, shift and modes, and insert-mode) inform you of the current terminal status.
- Information indicators (system lock and wait, which is the clock symbol) appear infrequently and do not require any particular action from you.
- Attention indicators (machine check, communication check, and program check) indicate unpredictable situations that occur from time to time in response to operator or system actions.
- Error indicators (what?, wrong place, too much data, numeric data only, what number?, minus function, operator not authorized, minus symbol, and rejected message) indicate conditions that the system regards as erroneous and occur whenever a given action has been made in a given circumstance.
- OIA background
The Other category has one attribute:
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