Black Box 5250 Appendix E: Keyboard Templates, Remote Emulator Card, Table E-1.Key Functions

5250 REMOTE EMULATOR CARD

Appendix E: Keyboard Templates

Table E-1 below gives a general definition for each 5250 (host) key. Use the table with the keyboard templates on the next eight pages to keep track of where the functions you need are. There is one keyboard template for each possible combination of PC Keyboard and Emulated Keyboard (see Section 6.2.2). In addition, there are two pairs of templates for the Enhanced keyboard, one for the USA / CAN (ORIG) language and one for the USA / CAN (TERM) langauge (see Section 6.2.3). (We’ve included an Emulator Card template with each keyboard template to give you a set of single-page quick reference guides.)

Use the information in this appendix with that in Appendix D when you want to customize your keyboard’s scan codes.

Table E-1. Key Functions
5250 Keys	Functions of the Keys
[CMD]	Causes the host to disregard the normal function
	of a repeating key and perform the function
	assigned in the host’s program instead.
[DEL]	Deletes the character where the cursor is located.
[DUP]	Requests that the host program duplicate the data
	from the same field in the previous record.
[ERASE INPUT]	Erases data entered in all input fields. The cursor
	will move to the top left corner of the screen.
[ERROR RESET]	Unlocks keyboard after it is locked because of an
	error condition. Will also reset the help, insert,
	command, and system-request modes.
[FIELD +]	Can be used as a field-exit key in all fields.
[FIELD –]	Operates much like the [FIELD +] key, but in
	signed-numeric and numeric fields only.
[FIELD EXIT]	Used to exit fields that are specified in a program
	as field-exit required, or as right-justified.
[HELP]	Describes the current error condition. The
	[ERROR RESET] key will reset the help
	message
	and error condition to restore the screen and
	unlock the keyboard.

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