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Special Characters and Blanks

You can use two special characters in masks. An asterisk (*) in the mask indicates that the product should substitute the character from the physical terminal ID at the same location as the asterisk before making a comparison. A hyphen (-) in the mask indicates that any character in that position will match.

Blanks are significant. If a blank appears at the end of a physical terminal mask, the last character of the physical terminal ID also must be a blank.

Important! For each application using virtual terminal masking, you must specify the virtual terminal mask name in the Mask entry name field of the Application Characteristics Table (ACT).