TERMINAL command

Use the TERMINAL command to define operating characteristics that depend primarily upon the type of terminal that you are using. You can specify the ways that you want to request an attention interruption and you can identify hardware features and capabilities. The TERMINAL command allows you to request an attention interruption whether your terminal has a key for attention interrupt.

Note: The TERMINAL command is only for line mode type devices that are not in full-screen applications. Typically TERMINAL has no effect on full-screen devices such as 3270, nor does TERMINAL work if the user is in a full-screen application, such as ISPF.

Note: The TERMINAL command is not allowed as a TSO/E command in the background.

The terminal characteristics that you have defined remain in effect until you enter the LOGOFF command. If you terminate a session and begin a new one by entering a LOGON command (instead of a LOGOFF command followed by a LOGON command), the terminal characteristics defined in the earlier session remain in effect during the subsequent session.

If your session is interrupted by a line disconnection and you logon again using the LOGON RECONNECT, you must redefine all previously defined terminal characteristics. The reason for the redefinition is that all records for defined data are lost as a result of the line disconnection.

Note: If an invoked program issues the VTAM® STTRAN macro that affects the same hex value that the TERMINAL command changed, then the value set by the TERMINAL command is no longer in effect.