TERMINAL ATTN
Authorization
Privilege Class: G
Purpose
Use TERMINAL ATTN to control attention interrupts to ASCII terminal keyboards and printers.
Operands
- ON
- turns on attention interrupt signaling. When an attention interrupt occurs, CP displays an exclamation point (!).
- OFf
- turns off
attention interrupt signaling. When an attention interrupt occurs, CP suppresses the display of the
exclamation point and carriage return. Note: OFF is the default for display terminals. ON is the default for ASCII devices.
Usage Notes
- TERMINAL ATTN ON controls the signaling of an attention interrupt only on the keyboards and printers or ASCII terminals. It is not valid for display type terminals.
- ATTN is set ON when you log on or reconnect to an ASCII terminal.
- For more information, see TERMINAL Usage Notes.