I've seen some very advanced users who set up their terminal with wildly different color mappings, e.g. white background instead of black. I make small changes to mine because I'm slightly red-green color blind.
I'd think changing the background color of entry fields would be too much of a change. And IBM Personal Communications doesn't let a user set the uline attribute on fields, only can change foreground and background color. I'd really like to get the users to learn their keyboard! They don't know where the tab, new line, erase EOF, PA1, PA2, Reset, etc. fields are! It's like they've never used an actual 3270 terminal. 😉 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Hobart Spitz Sent: Friday, February 28, 2025 9:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ULINE fields in ISPF [Some people who received this message don't often get email from [email protected]. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] Have you considered changing the default background for input fields in the terminal emulator distribution? For example a "charcoal grey"ish background on a black background screen would make all input fields stand out without disrupting the look-and-feel of the panels displayed. Most users never bother to change their screen color defaults, if they even know how to do so; there are at least a couple of really awful colors in most terminal emulators, always the same. I suspect it has something to do with the "equivalent" 3270 colors and those of Windoze. Alternatively, you could encourage the users to make that change. OREXXMan Q: What do you call the residence of the ungulate with the largest antlers? A: A moose pad. :-D Would you rather pass data in move mode (*nix piping) or locate mode (Pipes) or via disk (JCL)? Why do you think you rarely see *nix commands with more than a dozen filters, while Pipelines specifications are commonly over 100s of stages, and 1000s of stages are not uncommon. REXX is the new C. On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM Hank Oerlemans < [email protected]> wrote: > Settings->Input field pad > > but it might be more trouble than it's worth. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
