Telnet Display

From the Telnet display, you can issue commands and pass data to the remote host to which the connection has been made—the IP address or host name of this connection appears in the title line.

All data resulting from any processing you do on the remote host is held in a buffer. The size of the buffer and the number of the first line displayed are shown on the right of the title line.

Note: Commands entered in the command line of the Telnet display are sent directly for processing on the remote host.

Telnet Function Key Assignments

The Telnet display contains the following function key assignments exclusive to the Telnet display:

Function (F4): Presents the Telnet Functions menu from where you can select the options to manage your Telnet connection
Hide (F5): Suppresses the display of the characters being typed as you enter your password when logging on to a Telnet connection on a remote host—this also suppresses data from going into the command stack used by Retrieve (F6) as well as that resulting from tracing.
Retrieve (F6): Retrieves previously issued commands from the command stack, starting with the most recent. When the cursor is positioned on a line in the display, then that line is retrieved.

Edit Text on the Telnet Display

If you want to reformat the data on your Telnet display before printing it, or if you want to use particular data or messages as input—for example, to a problem record—ensure that the Edit field on the Telnet display is set to ON. When Edit is set to ON, the display is presented in Edit mode. This is an ISPF-like interface and supports most of the standard ISPF editing commands.

Some simple editing commands are as follows:

D or DD (Delete): Deletes one line of text, type the D command in the first column to the left on the line you want to remove and press Enter. To delete more than one line, enter DD at the first and last lines of the block you want to remove.
N or NN (Notepad): Copies one line of text to the Notepad, type the N command in the first column to the left on the line you want to copy to the Notepad and press Enter. To copy more than one line, enter NN at the first and last lines of the block you want to copy.

Note: For more information about editing commands, see the Managed Object Development Services Programmer and Developer Guide.