how to show default editable value on MFS

heredev · New User Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 2 Location: kolkata

how to show default editable value at an input field of a MFS screen when it is thrown for the first time.

example:

ENTER ROLL NO: 000000

here 000000 is the default value at the ROLL NO field. User can update the value by his ROLL NO.

Sandy Zimmer · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject:

Try this - your position on the screen probably is not this, but always remember to allow for your attribute bytes.

DFLD POS=(15,42), LTH=6,ATTR=(MOD,NUM)

input
MFLD ROLL,LTH=6,JUST=R,FILL=C'0'

output
MFLD ROLL,LTH=8,ATTR=YES

heredev · New User Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 2 Location: kolkata

Thanks for your help but the code did not work.

What i understand from the code is that - (correct me if i am wrong)
As the FILL=C'0' in specified for the input area, if no value is entered on the screen and ENTER is presed, zero will go to the program.

But objective is to show the default value when the scren is thrown for the first time.

I would like to state another example in this regard,

When the screen is thrown for the first time this will be displayed:
ENTER EMAIL: _____________@ibmmainframes.com

If i update the field it will become:
ENTER EMAIL: heredev______@ibmmainframes.com

So the UNDERSCORE is the default value for that input field and also is updatable.