Using the EPI Recording and Playback Options › Marking Text to Find on or Fetch from a Screen › Place the Cursor on a Screen Field

Place the Cursor on a Screen Field

When placing the cursor on a screen field, you can specify the following:

• An absolute position if your target is screen text that never changes
• The cursor position relative to other screen data if the cursor will go on screen text that can vary

To have your EXEC place the cursor on a specific piece of screen text

1. Issue the C command at the command line.

   The following novice mode screen for the C command appears. This illustration shows a CA NetSpy statistics screen displayed for session recording. Suppose that you want to place the cursor at the CA NetSpy command line (shown at the bottom of the screen).

   ------------------------------- PLACE THE CURSOR ------------------------------
    COMMAND ===>                                                  SCROLL ===> CSR
        To specify Relative Positioning, use @ to mark the screen data
        to search for.  Then use # to mark where you want the script to place
        the cursor after the data is found.  To specify Absolute Positioning,
        use # to mark the position where the cursor will be placed.
        The default for SESSCMD is NOENTER
      -------------------------------------------------------------------------
     HOST=S032               MEASURED INTERVAL=  3.8M  27MAR95.178 FRI 15:18:49 ***
                         *** NETSPY RESPONSE TIME STATISTICS (INTERVAL) ***
     APPL      AVGE=RSP    WORST    NO.    NO.     NO.    NO.  INPUT OUT-SZE OUT-SZE
     NAME     HOST   NET    HOST   SESS  INPUT  OUTPUT NETRSP   SIZE TRANSCT  WRITE
     -----------------------------  NETSPY= S032  ---------------------------------
     NETSPY32 0.1    0.0     0.6        1    8      8      8      6     1629    1629
     TSO32    0.6    0.0     1.7        8    8      9      8      7     1366    1214
     -----------------------------  NETSPY= S028  ----------------------------------
     NETSPY28 0.0    0.0     0.4        4   16     16     16      8     1246    1246
     TSO28    1.1    0.1     8.8       51   42     68     38     12      470     290
     CICSA    0.4    0.1     0.9        3  210    226    186    136     1575    1108
     CICST    0.3    0.2     0.6        2   22     24     20    130     1525    1075
     PRESS PFK1= HELP, 3= MENU, 5= DA, 6= DT, 9=DNCPS, 10= DLINES, 12=LOGOFF
      OR ENTER A NEW COMMAND BELOW
   --->
   

2. Type one or more control characters over screen text to indicate where to place the cursor.

   You can specify an absolute position for the cursor if your target is screen text that never changes. Or, you can indicate the cursor position relative to other screen data if the cursor will go on screen text that can vary.

3. Assuming that the absolute screen location character is # and the relative screen location character is @:
   • Type C on the EPI Recorder panel command line at the top of the screen
   • Type # to the right of the arrow on the CA NetSpy command line
   • Then type @ over the first character and the last character in the word BELOW as follows:

     OR ENTER A NEW COMMAND @ELO@
     ---> #
     

The EPI first finds the screen text overtyped with @ characters, shown in Find a Text String on a Screen, and then places the cursor on the CA NetSpy command line.