The Telnet DBCS code has detected an error with the input data. Some of the possible reasons are:

• The keyboard is locked
• Input was tried in a protected field
• The command was out of sequence
• The data entered was not valid.

An informational message is displayed in the variable text field of the message. The layout of the variable text field is described below:

     xxxxxx-yyyyy nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

where

xxxxxx

The translation routine being used. This routine can be correlated with the code page being used and the translation being done. The first few characters are the translation and the rest, if included, the code page being used.

           Translation
           ATM - ASCII to 3270
           TNDTERM - 3270 terminal translation
 

           Codepage
           SJF - SJISKANJI
           J8O - JIS78KJ
           J8N - JIS83KJ
           EUC - EUCKANJI
           DEC - DECKANJI
           HAN - HANGEUL
           KSC - KSC5601
           TCH - TCHINESE
 

yyyyy

The command(s) being processed. There might be multiple commands strung together all separated by a hyphen (-) An example of this would be

                NULL-ESC-CRTLK

nnnnnn

The reason.

Possible reasons and actions are:

Reason

Action

ATMDEC-CtrlA INPUT INHIBITED

The keyboard is locked. Reset the keyboard.

ATMDEC-NULL INVALID COMMAND RECEIVED

The previous command was not valid. Try again.

ATMDEC x

The command/data was either not valid or out of sequence.