ALWGPH (Allow Graphics) Keyword for Display Files

This file- or record-level keyword allows the display of graphics and the alphanumeric contents displayed by the record format on a 5292 Model 2 Color Display Station at the same time. The keyword is ignored if it is specified for a file displayed on any other type of display.

This keyword has no parameters.

When a record with this keyword in effect is written to a 5292 Model 2 Color Display Station, the device is placed in graphics display mode, if it was not already in that mode. This is done whether the keyword is in effect for any other record also displayed on the device. The device remains in graphics display mode as long as there is any record displayed with the ALWGPH keyword selected. Displaying a record that does not have the ALWGPH keyword will not cause graphics display mode to end.

To turn the graphics display off, you must delete all records with the ALWGPH keyword in them from the display (or option off the keyword in those records). When the graphics display is turned off, any graphics already on the display are not deleted, but are simply no longer displayed. Provided the graphics display is not deleted (through the use of GDDM* functions), it will be displayed again the next time a record with ALWGPH is displayed, including one from a secondary interactive job called from the System Request Menu.

In the graphics display mode:

Option indicators are valid for this keyword.

This keyword cannot be specified with the SFL or the USRDFN keywords.