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Defining Your Own Operations

If you are using a scan code file to define a nonstandard terminal keyboard (such as a processor console keyboard), the list of valid operations provided in this appendix may not contain all of the operations you need. For that reason, CA Automation Point provides 25 different operation names that you can map to operations of your choice. The user-definable operations are valid only for terminal emulator keyboards identified in scan code files.

By default, operations 3270_1 to 3270_25 are dummy names for undefined operations.

To map actual operations to default dummy operation names

1. Use the utility program to map a dummy operation, such as 3270_2, to an available key on your keyboard.

   Your keyboard parameter entry may look like this:

   KEY=3270_2,SCAN=35(CTRL,ALT),MAP=TERMINAL
   

   In the preceding example, SCAN=35 is the scan code for the H key.

2. Specify the dummy operation name (3270_2) and the scan code of the actual operation in the scan code file for the terminal emulator to which this operation applies.

   Your scan code entry might look like this:

   3270_KEY=3270_2,3270_SCAN=(4f,0c,cf)
   

For more information, see the section Customizing Your Scan Code Files in this appendix.