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Select z/OS Screen Generator Options

The Enhanced Screen Generator is the default for all block mode applications when z/OS is the target platform. The Enhanced Screen Generator is not available for other target platforms. You can use the previous version of the screen generator by setting the environment variable TIMAPGEN to 1. The enhanced screen generator is used when the environment variable is set to 2, or when the variable is undefined. The variable can be set in a command file, a shell script, or a batch file that starts the CA Gen software. To permanently override the default selection of the Enhanced Screen Generator, add the TIMAPGEN variable to the system environment variable definitions. See your operating system documentation for more specific information on setting environment variables.

When the TIMAPGEN variable is defined in the same session that starts CA Gen, the definition is local to that session and all its child sessions. The definition is not local to other sessions on the system. It is possible to have more than one version of CA Gen, each with a different environment variable.