Displaying Grid Lines (DBCS Only)

Grid lines can be displayed using the screen format data. PC400 supports the following two methods of displaying grid lines:
  1. Building the data of the grid-line screen using the grid-line control code by a user.
  2. Utilizing the screen grid-line support provided by DDS. This is available on i5/OS™ or OS/400® V3R1, or later.

    The grid lines defined by using this support can be displayed with the grid lines defined by using the first method.

    However, with this method, only one color of the grid lines is available. DDS uses the color specified for a divider line by the color-mapping function. Nothing to the right of the 80th column is displayed. As for line types, only a solid line is available. The grid lines defined by using this support can be printed on host printers.

This chapter describes how to build the data of the grid-line screen (method 1).

For information about the screen grid lines provided by DDS (method 2), please refer to the iSeries™, eServer™ i5, or System i5™ publications.