Terminal characteristics

Most terminal attributes are supplied by the CICS® server but some can optionally be determined by the user application.

Terminals can be either basic or extended. Extended terminals have more attributes than basic terminals. An extended terminal can be purged while a transaction is running but basic terminals can only be deleted when they are in the idle state.

You can specify the following attributes as input parameters for both basic and extended terminals:
Model
For autoinstalled terminals this is the name of an existing terminal definition on the CICS server which is to serve as a model for this terminal.
Server name
The name of the CICS server where the terminal is to be installed.
Netname
The network name of the terminal. .
The following additional attributes can be specified for extended terminals:
Code page
The code page used by the user application for data passed between the terminal resource and CICS transactions.
Install timeout
The maximum length of time that the CICS Transaction Gateway will wait for a terminal to be installed on the selected CICS server. If not specified there is no limit to the wait time. Refer to Timeout of the EPI request for more information.
Password
The password that is to be associated with the terminal for security checking.
Read timeout
The maximum length of time that the CICS Transaction Gateway will wait for a response from the user application. If not specified there is no limit to the wait time. Refer to Timeout of the EPI request for more information.
Sign-on capability
Whether the terminal is capable of running a CICS sign-on transaction. If not specified, the terminal has the default sign-on capability of the CICS server type. Sign-on capability and sign-on incapability are described in more detail in Specifying terminal sign-on capability.
Userid
The user ID that is to be associated with the terminal for security checking.
The following attributes are returned to the user application by the CICS server when a terminal is added:
Color
Whether the terminal supports color.
Columns
The number of columns supported by the terminal.
Error last line
Whether error messages are displayed on the last line of the terminal.
Error message color
The color used to display error messages on the terminal.
Error message highlight
The highlight value used to display error messages on the terminal.
Error message intensity
The intensity with which error messages are displayed on the terminal.
Extended highlight
Whether the terminal supports extended highlighting.
Maximum data
The maximum length of data that can be sent from and received by the terminal.
Netname
The network name of the terminal.
Rows
The number of rows supported by the terminal.
Server name
The name of the CICS server where the terminal is installed.
Sign-on capability
The sign-on capability assigned to the terminal by the server.
Terminal ID
The terminal ID generated by CICS.

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