BLANKS

Category
I/O Buffer
Additional information
The same response indicator should not be used with a BLANKS keyword and another keyword, since the DDS manual warns against this and the results of doing so may be unpredicatable.

A BLANKS keyword on a field that has both DSPATR(PR) and DSPATR(ND) on a field that has been hidden using Web settings may not work as expected in Webfacing. In Webfacing, the BLANKS response indicators for such fields will not be turned on even when the fields are blank; they would be turned on for a 5250 application.

When BLANKS is specified on a field on a subfile record and the field is written to the screen as blank, but the no fields on subfile record are changed, the BLANKS response indicator will not be turned on. On the 5250, the response indicator would be turned on. This is only a problem if (1) BLANKS is specified on a subfile field and (2) no fields in the subfile record are changed.


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