get full details about 5250 fields via ehllapi of ACS

the ehllapi of ACS allows a client application under windows to query the attributes of each field of a 52250 screen.

This api returns some information, not all.

for example, the auto-enter-field status is not returned. This put my client application in a difficult position to determine what happens when a character is typed:

the difficultly is to anticipate the fact ACS will send the screen when none of the AID key (Attention IDentifier key such as F1 or Enter) is pressed.

this request is to enhance the EHLLAPI of PCOMM to return this full set of status (the second byte of FFW as described in 5494 Remote Control Unit SC30-3533-04 Functions Reference Release 3.1 SC30-3533-04)

Bit 8-Auto Enter

O = No auto enter

1 = Auto enter when field is exited

Bit 9-Field Exit Required (FER)

O = Field Exit key is not required

1 = Field Exit key is required

Bit 10-Monocase

0 = Accept lower case letters

1 = Translate operator keyed letters to uppercase

Bit 12-Mandatory Enter (ME)

O = Not mandatory enter field

1 = Mandatory enter field

Bit 13-15 Right Adjust/Mandatory Fill (MF)

000 = No adjust specified

001 = Reserved

010 = Reserved

011 = Reserved

100 = Reserved

101 = Right adjust, zero fill

110 = Right adjust, blank fill

111 = Mandatory fill

suggestion for implementation :

the Query Field Attribute (14) function returns the status information in the Length field, which is an integer (4 bytes) and populate only bits 0 to 7 (doing that probably by reading the 5250 FFW bytes).

Populating also next byte of the Length with the second byte of the 5250 FFW does not seems a significant enhancement.