OVERLAY

Category
Screen Building
Additional information
This keyword is fully supported. However, it may be limited by the support level of other keywords. For example, if a record with the OVERLAY keyword in effect is already on the display, it is deleted and rewritten as a new record even when the PUTOVR, PUTRETAIN, or CLRL keywords are specified.

There is a problem when a record is positioned on the screen between a subfile control and its subfile. For example, RecordA occupies lines 10-12, SFLCTLB occupies lines 1-9, and SubfileB (the subfile record associated with SFLCTLB) occupies lines 13-23. If RecordA is written, then SFLCTLB is written, RecordA will be cleared from the screen. The regular 5250 behaviour would be to leave RecordA on the screen in this case.


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