IBM 3270 Emulation

 

Perform a cursor-select operation when the cursor is not in a

 

valid cursor-select field.

 

The keyboard can be unlocked and the indicator removed by

 

pressing the Reset key.

SYSTEM

Indicates that you cannot enter any data because the application

 

program has disabled the keyboard following an entry.

>

Indicates that you attempted to insert characters into an unpro-

 

tected field when the cursor was at the end of the field, or you

 

attempted to word wrap to the next line when there were not

 

enough spaces to enable a word wrap.

 

The keyboard can be unlocked and the indicator removed by

 

pressing the Reset key.

Typing Direction

=> or <= This indicates the direction in which characters are displayed on the screen when typed. The direction is toggled between left-to- right (normal) and right-to-left by pressing the keys Shift + / on the keypad.

Bilingual Keyboard Mode
N or LThis indicates whether the National (N) or Latin (L) character

 

set is active when a code page that supports a bilingual keyboard

 

is selected. Pressing the keys Shift + - on the keypad will toggle

 

between the two character sets.
Shift

NUM

This indicates that the numeric lock function is enabled and the

 

current cursor is in a numeric field. When the numeric lock

 

function is on, the current cursor is in an unprotected field and

 

the keyboard is in lowercase shift, you can only use the 0 to 9,

 

decimal sign (.), minus (-), and Dup keys.
Mode Symbol

^

This symbol indicates that the keyboard is in Insert mode. Al-

 

ready existing characters to the right of the cursor will move to

 

make room for new characters that are entered. Insert mode can

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