A Screen Description entry specifies the attributes, behavior, size and location for a referenced screen item which is accepted
or displayed at run time.
The availability of screen attributes is dependent on your terminal hardware and operating system and COBOL run-time support.
The following are not a part of X/Open screen handling:
- ACCEPT (Formats 3 and 5)
- AUTO-SKIP (synonym for AUTO)
- BEEP (synonym for BELL)
- COL (synonym for COLUMN)
- CONTROL
- DISPLAY (Format 3)
- EMPTY-CHECK (synonym for REQUIRED)
- GRID
- LEFTLINE
- LENGTH-CHECK (synonym for FULL)
- NO-ECHO (synonym for SECURE)
- OCCURS
- OVERLINE
- PROMPT
- SIZE
- ZERO-FILL
General Format
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