IBM 3270 Emulation

The Status Line

The last line in the window is used to display status information in the form of symbols and alphanumeric characters. A coloured line separates status information from the rest of the display. Information is displayed in any of nine regions within the status line as listed below.

1: Readiness & System Connection

Symbol

Colour

Column

Meaning

T

Blue

1

Telnet session running

A

Blue

2

Online (non-SNA)

?

Blue

3

Network Virtual Terminal mode

 

 

Blue

3

My job (IBM emulation screen)

 

 

 

 

Blue

3

Host operating system mode

2: Do Not Enter

Symbol

Colour

Column

Meaning

PROGnnn

Yellow

10-18

Program check (nnn = error code)

 

White

10-13

Terminal wait

NUM

Red

10-15

Numeric data only

 

Red

10-14

Go elsewhere

SYSTEM

White

10-17

System lock

>

Red

10-13

Too much

3: Typing Direction

Symbol

Colour

Column

Meaning

=>

Blue

19

Typing direction left-to-right

<=

Blue

19

Typing direction right-to-left

4: Bilingual Keyboard Mode

Symbol

Colour

Column

Meaning

N

Blue

20

National character set mode

L

Blue

20

Latin character set mode

5: TN3270E Device Name

Symbol

Colour

Column

Meaning

dddddddd

White

22-29

TN3270E actual device

 

 

 

name connected as

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