cicsterm preferences on Windows
The terminal emulator provides menu options that can be used to customize the font, print the screen, and exit with save settings.
If you share a computer with others, or are a user of multiple computers on a network, your preferences are used whenever and wherever you launch terminal emulator. This functionality is provided by means of Windows roaming user support.
The CICSTERM.INI file is not erased when you uninstall CICS® Transaction Gateway. Therefore, when you re-install CICS Transaction Gateway, the emulator uses the settings from the old CICSTERM.INI files.
The terminal emulator has a menu bar with File and Settings menus.
The commands on the File menu are:
- Prints the emulator screen. This has the same effect as pressing the Print Screen key.
- Exit
- Stops the terminal emulator.
The commands on the Settings menu are:
- Font
- Opens a standard Windows dialog box that allows you to select any of the fixed-pitch fonts installed on your system. Select a font, a font style, and a size, and then select OK. The terminal window is then resized according to your font selection.
- Autosize
- Specifies that the size of TrueType fonts is adjusted according to the size of the terminal window. That is, when you maximize, minimize, or drag the borders to resize the window, the font is resized to match the new window size. This command has no effect if the current font is not a TrueType font.
- Save on Exit
- Specifies that the current font, terminal window size, and terminal
position are saved, for use in future sessions, when you close the
terminal window. If the Settings > Save on exit menu
option is selected, your choices are stored in CICSTERM.INI, for use
in future sessions. A copy of CICSTERM.INI is created for each Windows user account as follows:
where APPDATA is the environment variable defined for each user by the Windows operating system.APPDATA\IBM\CTG\CICSTERM.INI