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Keyboard shift

This field type specifies which keyboard shift is allowed for the field on panel files. It can have one of these values:

Blank—no keyboard shift

X, A, N, W, I, D, M—for alphanumeric fields

N, S, Y, I, or D—for numeric fields

O, J, E, W, G, or A—for ideographic fields

For more information on keyboard shift values, refer to the IBM DDS Reference.