Miscellaneous preferences

Launch the miscellaneous preferences menu through a pull down menu item under the Option menu. A resource entry controls the availability or unavailability of the miscellaneous preferences menu item.

Valid values for the reference are as follows:

enable: Allows you to use 5250 miscellaneous preferences. Enable is the default value.
disable_and_hide: Does not allow you to use the 5250 miscellaneous preferences program and the menu item is not displayed.

At 5250 session initialization, the emulator checks to see if there is a Miscellaneous file in the user's directory ($HOME/.iSeriesAccess/ibm_5250 ). If the file is not found, the internal defaults are used. The 5250 miscellaneous preferences are as follows:

Cursor Style
Cursor Blink
Enter/Field Exit key locations
Print key location
Destructive Backspace key
Hot spots
Hot spots highlighting
Paste start location
Auto Help for operator error
Operator error reset
Keyboard buffering
Large screen behavior
Row column indicator
Rule line key
Rule line style
Blue underscore

When a preference is modified, the change is temporarily applied to all 5250 sessions.