Error Situations

If you do not have the appropriate text hardware feature on your 3270, but attempt to display a file that contains the characters, the characters appear as blanks on a 3277, and as hyphens on a 3276 and a 3278.

If you inadvertently enter the TERMINAL TEXT ON command while using a terminal that does not have the text capability, you must do the following to return to regular operating procedures:

  1. Press the PA1 key to enter the CP environment.
  2. Enter, in uppercase letters only, the command: 
    TERMINAL TEXT OFF
Notes:
  1. The 3270 text hardware feature is activated by a key, not a switch. Each time you press the TEXT On/Off key, you reverse its setting. If your terminal has a red light on the text keyboard, it will be illuminated when the text feature is on.
  2. Compound characters, such as a character/-backspace/-character combination, are still entered and displayed as three characters. The screen position occupied by the backspace character appears as a blank because the character (X'16') is nondisplayable. For more information on displaying nondisplayable characters, see the description of the SET NONDISP commands in z/VM: CMS Commands and Utilities Reference and z/VM: XEDIT Commands and Macros Reference.