.SCC

Type

OMEGAMON Immediate command

Description

Sets display color or highlighting for text and commands by type. The .SCC command displays and sets options that determine how highlighting and/or color is used when an OMEGAMON screen is sent to a user’s terminal. Since display characteristics depend on the type of terminal you are supporting, .SCC contains keywords that, in combination, will accommodate any of the various 3270-type devices. Here is the screen display format:

Figure 1. Screen display format for .SCC immediate command

 .SCC
:  Display=ccccc                               ProfileDefinitionMode=OFF
:  ExtendedHighlighting=ccc
+
:  Major=ccccccccc   Minor=cccccccc   Immed=cccccccc   Default=cccccccc
+
+  XACB Display Options:
:      Clr1=cccccccc   Clr2=cccccccc   Clr3=cccccccc   Clr4=cccccccc
:      Clr5=cccccccc   Clr6=cccccccc   Clr7=cccccccc

Device support

This discussion divides color/highlighting capabilities into the following device categories:

Non-EDS

Devices that do not support an extended data stream (EDS), but support highlighting. There are two types of non-EDS devices.

Monochrome non-EDS, which use high or low intensity to distinguish fields in a display.
Color non-EDS, which distinguish between high and low intensity by using different colors in a display. The colors displayed depend on whether the device is a 2-base color or 4-base color device, and whether a field is protected or unprotected. For example, most 4-base color devices display high intensity fields in red (unprotected) and white (protected), low intensity fields in green (unprotected) and blue (protected).

Monochrome EDS

Monochrome devices that support the extended data stream. A field may be displayed in either high or low intensity in combination with the extended highlighting attributes (blinking, reverse video, and underscoring).

Color EDS

Color devices that support the extended data stream. A field may be displayed in any of the 7 extended colors in combination with the extended highlighting attributes.

Profile definition mode

Before customizing your color/highlighting definitions, determine which mode of .SCC is appropriate. The mode is controlled by the ProfileDefinitionMode keyword, as shown in the following screen:

 .SCC
:  Display=ccccc                              ProfileDefinitionMode=ON/OFF
:  ExtendedHighlighting=ccc

OFF: Changes to .SCC affect only the current OMEGAMON session.
ON: Intended for use when creating or changing a user profile. After defining the settings, you must issue a profile save command in order for these definitions to be saved and reused. (They may also take effect during the current session if you subsequently change the value of the Display= keyword.) Setting this keyword to ON enables you to configure options for different types of terminals on the same screen.

Keywords and values

The following sections describe the remainder of the .SCC keywords and valid values.

For any keyword or value, you need only type as many letters as it takes to make an entry unique. You may type any keyword and value on the command line after .SCC and bypass the multi-line display. The command comments itself out and flags itself DONE at the end of the line. This facility allows for changes to .SCC values from within screen spaces.

Display intensity or color

The Display keyword has 4 possible settings.

 .SCC
:  Display=BASIC|HIGH|LOW|COLOR
+

BASIC: Allows you to set HIGH or LOW intensity for fields on monochrome terminals or non-EDS color terminals.
Note: When the BASIC display option is used on color devices that can support EDS, OMEGAMON will treat that device as a four-base color terminal (non-EDS).
HIGH: Specifies that all fields be displayed in high intensity.
LOW: Specifies that all fields be displayed in low intensity.
COLOR: For color EDS terminals only, allows you to specify the color of each field.

Note: In cases where OMEGAMON is given a color value instead of an intensity value or vice versa, it makes the following internal conversion:

On a non-EDS terminal, values of Green and Blue translate to low intensity; all other color values translate to high intensity.
On an EDS terminal, a value of HI translates to the color Red; a value of LO translates to the color Green.

Extended highlighting

The ExtendedHighlighting keyword is used only with devices that support the extended data stream.

:  ExtendedHighlighting=ON|OFF

OFF: Extended highlighting features are not available. Use with non-EDS devices.
ON: Extended highlighting features are available. When Display=COLOR, this value is automatically set to ON. (Extended attributes are not supported in ISPF mode.)

CAUTION:

Do not set ExtendedHighlighting=ON unless you have a terminal that supports an extended data stream (or unless you have ProfileDefinitionMode=ON). If you do this accidentally, you may get a PROGnnn or a screen erasure error. You may press the ATTN or PA1 key to resume the session, but be aware that this action also clears the current security authorization and the current screen space.

Display fields

Following is the display format of .SCC with ProfileDefinitionMode=ON. It shows the display field keywords and valid values. For the Display=COLOR option, color names can be Red, Green, White, Blue, Pink, Yellow, or Turquoise. For the Display=BASIC option, highlighting values can be HIGH or LOW. The value of the Default keyword can be used as a variable definition for the Major, Minor, Immed, and XACB Display Options. In the figure, the Default value is abbreviated as DEF.

Figure 2. Display format for .SCC command with ProfileDefinitionMode=ON

 .SCC
:  Display=COLOR|BASIC                         ProfileDefinitionMode=ON
:  ExtendedHighlighting=ON
+
:  Display=COLOR Options:
:  MajorC=color|DEF      MinorC=color|DEF    ImmedC=color|DEF   DefaultC=color
+
+  XACB Display Options:
:      Clr1C=color|DEF   Clr2C=color|DEF     Clr3C=color|DEF    Clr4C=color|DEF
:      Clr5C=color|DEF   Clr6C=color|DEF     Clr7C=color|DEF
+
:  Display=BASIC Options:
:  MajorB=HI|LO|DEF   MinorB=HI|LO|DEF  ImmedB=HI|LO|DEF  DefaultB=HI|LO
+
+  XACB Display Options:
:      Clr1B=HI|LO|DEF  Clr2B=HI|LO|DEF  Clr3B=HI|LO|DEF  Clr4B=HI|LO|DEF
:      Clr5B=HI|LO|DEF  Clr6B=HI|LO|DEF  Clr7B=HI|LO|DEF

You can control the following field names with .SCC:

Major: Controls color or highlighting for major commands and their output.
Minor: Controls color or highlighting for minor commands and their output.
Immed: Controls color or highlighting for immediate commands and their output.
Default: Controls color or highlighting for other unprotected fields (for example, error message text, help text).
XACB Options: Controls exception analysis message text. The keywords Clr1 through Clr7 can be used as substitutes for the color names (Red, Blue, and so on) or highlighting (HI or LO) when customizing exception messages with the XACB command.

The following table describes the color and highlighting settings for .SCC according to the type of terminal you are supporting.

Related Information

The following table lists display options.

If you have...	And you want...	Use these keywords...
A non-EDS terminal	some fields in high intensity and some fields in low intensity	Display=BASIC ExtendedHighlighting=OFF Major, Minor, Immed, XACB options=HI\|LO\|DEF Default=HI\|LO
A non-EDS terminal	all fields in high intensity	Display=HI ExtendedHighlighting=OFF (All other settings default to HI.)
A non-EDS terminal	all fields in low intensity	Display=LO ExtendedHighlighting=OFF (All other settings default to LO.)
A monochrome EDS terminal	some fields in high intensity and some fields in low intensity, plus blinking, underscoring, or reverse video	Display=BASIC ExtendedHighlighting=ON Major, Minor, Immed, XACB options=HI\|LO\|DEF Default=HI\|LO
A monochrome EDS terminal	all fields in high intensity, plus blinking, underscoring, or reverse video	Display=HI ExtendedHighlighting=ON (All other settings default to HI.)
A monochrome EDS terminal	all fields in low intensity plus blinking, underscoring, or reverse video	Display=LO ExtendedHighlighting=ON (All other settings default to LO.)
A color EDS terminal	to specify the color of each field, plus blinking, underscoring, or reverse video	Display=COLOR ExtendedHighlighting=ON Major, Minor, Immed, XACB options=color\|DEF Default=color