SEND CONTROL command

Sends device controls to a terminal without map or text data. In Smalltalk, the parameters of the SEND CONTROL command are contained in two classes: CICSSendcontrol and CICSSendcontrolResult. VA Smalltalk Server supports minimum basic mapping support (BMS), which is an interface between CICS application programs and terminal devices.

See CICS Application Programming Reference for the syntax of the command and a description of its parameters.

Defined instance methods

Parameters supplied to CICS in CICSSendcontrol

 

Parameter	Instance method	Mode	Type	Notes/exceptions
ALARM	alarm	Input	Switch
CURSOR(data-value)	cursor:	Input	Binary 16
ERASE	erase	Input	Switch
ERASEAUP	eraseaup	Input	Switch
FREEKB	freekb	Input	Switch
FRSET	frset	Input	Switch
PRINT	print	Input	Switch

Parameters returned by CICS in CICSSendcontrolResult

 

Parameter	Instance method	Mode	Type	Notes/exceptions
RESP	resp	Output	Fixed(2)	Inherited from CICSResult.
RESP2	resp2	Output	Fixed(2)	Inherited from CICSResult.

Example

Sends a cursor control command to a terminal.

| result |

result := CICS sendcontrol

cursor: 20;

exec.