OVERLAY
- Category
- Screen Building
- Additional information
- This keyword is fully supported. However, it may be limited by the support level
of other keywords. For example, if a record that has the OVERLAY keyword
specified is already on the display, it is deleted and rewritten as a new record
even when the PUTOVR, PUTRETAIN, or CLRL keywords are specified.
There is a problem when a record is positioned on the screen between a subfile control and its subfile. For example, RecordA occupies lines 10-12, SFLCTLB occupies lines 1-9, and SubfileB (the subfile record associated with SFLCTLB) occupies lines 13-23. If RecordA is written, then SFLCTLB is written, RecordA will be cleared from the screen. The regular 5250 behaviour would be to leave RecordA on the screen in this case.