HP-UX TN3270 R7 Administration Guide

Configuring TN3270
Understanding the Configuration Text File Records
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• Which field type is expected for the field name.
• Range of allowed values. The value shown in the table depends on
the field type:
— For record, text, and file fields, range indicates the minimum and
maximum number of characters allowed in a string.
— For number fields, range indicates the minimum and maximum
numeric values for the field.
— For flag and choice fields, range is not used.
• Whether the field is required or optional.
• The default value used for any optional (non-flag) fields that do not
have a value specified. No value, default or specified, is used for flag
fields.
Note also the following conditions about the configuration text file:
Order of Records and Fields
In general, the host, user, and diagnostics records
within a configuration file can appear in any order.
Similarly, the individual fields within a record can be in
any order. However, the following restrictions apply:
•Ahost record must be defined before any user
record that refers to it.
• A TN3270 user's sessions are assigned to the host
fields in a user record in the order in which host
records appear in the configuration file. For
example, if you configure two host fields, the user's
first session is assigned to the host described by the
first host field, and the user's second session is
assigned to the host described by the second host
field.
Blank space
Field values cannot contain blank spaces; each value is
a single continuous text string. All other blank spaces
in the text file are ignored. Thus, any combination of
spaces and tabs or completely blank lines is ignored.
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