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Web Option Tag Identifying Letters

The following table lists the identifying letters currently used with the Web Option.

Identifying Letter

Used For

d

Dependency tags

f

Formatted field tags

r

Replacement language tags

q

Exit program tags

t

User-defined text tags

v

Variable tags

x

System variable tags

Details about these tag types, how they are used, and the format of the data that is included in them is detailed in the following sections.

Note: Fields passed in the data stream is by the offset of that field on the screen being processed. Valid values for data offsets are between 2 and 1920 (for 24 by 80 screens) and between 2 and 3564 (for 27 by 132 screens) and are always generated as 4-character strings with leading zeros where applicable. Thus 1047 and 0043 are valid offsets, whereas 2430 and 84 are invalid (value outside range (for a 24 by 80 screen) and no leading zeros respectively). The standard algorithm for converting between screen offset and screen row/column is:

OFFSET = ((ROW - 1) *  maximum-columns) + COLUMN 

Where maximum columns is either 80 or 132.

The YCVTRCO command can be used to convert between row or column and offset, and vice-versa.

Note: Within this document, where an offset value is defined within a tag description, it is represented as NNNN.