Customizing session panel colors

You can change the color and highlighting on your session panel to distinguish the fields on the panel. Consider highlighting such areas as the current line in the Source window, the prefix area, and the statement identifiers where breakpoints have been set.

To change the color, intensity, or highlighting of various fields of the session panel on a color terminal, use the PANEL COLORS command. When you issue this command, the panel shown below appears.

                       Color Selection Panel                                    
 Command ===>                                                                   
                         Color    Highlight   Intensity                         
 Title  : field headers  TURQ     NONE        HIGH                              
          output fields  GREEN    NONE        LOW      Valid Color:             
 Monitor: contents       TURQ     REVERSE     LOW        White Yellow Blue      
          line numbers   TURQ     REVERSE     LOW        Turq Green Pink Red    
 Source : listing area   WHITE    REVERSE     LOW                               
          prefix area    TURQ     REVERSE     LOW      Valid Intensity:         
          suffix area    YELLOW   REVERSE     LOW        High Low               
          current line   RED      REVERSE     HIGH                              
          breakpoints    GREEN    NONE        LOW      Valid Highlight:         
 Log    : program output TURQ     NONE        HIGH       None Reverse           
          test input     YELLOW   NONE        LOW        Underline Blink        
          test output    GREEN    NONE        HIGH                              
          line numbers   BLUE     REVERSE     HIGH     Color and Highlight      
 Memory : information    GREEN    NONE        LOW      are valid only with      
          offset column  WHITE    NONE        LOW      color terminals.         
          address column YELLOW   NONE        LOW                               
          hex data       GREEN    NONE        LOW                               
          character data BLUE     NONE        LOW                               
  Command line           WHITE    NONE        HIGH                              
  Window headers         GREEN    REVERSE     HIGH                              
  Tofeof delimiter       BLUE     REVERSE     HIGH                              
  Search target          RED      NONE        HIGH                              
 Enter  END/QUIT    to return with current settings saved.                      
        CANCEL      to return without current settings saved.                   
                                                                                
 PF  1:?          2:STEP       3:QUIT       4:LIST       5:FIND       6:AT/CLEAR
 PF  7:UP         8:DOWN       9:GO        10:ZOOM      11:ZOOM LOG  12:RETRIEVE

Initially, the session panel areas and fields have the default color and attribute values shown above.

The usable color attributes are determined by the type of terminal you are using. If you have a monochrome terminal, you can still use highlighting and intensity attributes to distinguish fields.

To change the color and attribute settings for your z/OS® Debugger session, enter the desired colors or attributes over the existing values of the fields you want to change. The changes you make are saved when you enter QUIT.

You can also change the colors or intensity of selected areas by issuing the equivalent SET COLOR command from the command line. Either specify the fields explicitly, or use the cursor to indicate what you want to change. Changing a color or highlight with the equivalent SET command changes the value on the Color Selection Panel.

Settings remain in effect for the entire debug session.

Refer to the following topics for more information related to the material discussed in this topic.