BlueZone Emulator tips :

To save emulator settings, always click ‘Yes’ when exiting BlueZone.

BLUEZONE DOES NOT WORK ON THE MAC PLATFORM.

CONTACT YOUR CAMPUS IT DEPARTMENT FOR HELP

IN ESTABLISHING A MAINFRAME SESSION FROM THE

MAC OR FROM A UNIX MACHINE.

1. To get a print out of key assignments
1. Click OPTIONS
2. Click KEYBOARD
3. Click PRINT (1/2 way down screen on the right)
2. To customize key strokes
1. Click OPTIONS
2. Click KEYBOARD
3. Customize as desired (to customize a function to a key combination, press the ALT, CTRL, or SHIFT key twice to get the control key notation. Example.....to define CTRL R, press CTRL, press CTRL, press R)
4. Let’s say you want to set CTL-C to mean clear

(1) Click OPTIONS

(2) Click KEYBOARD.

(3) Clear is under the ‘Functions’ tab.

(4) Scroll down the functions until you find “Clear”.

(5) Notice this is already assigned to Ctrl+Shift+Z.   That’s OK, you don’t want to disable this.

(6) Click the NEW button

(7) Click CTL in the visible keyboard.    It is displaying Left Ctrl or Right Ctrl depending on which you select.

(8) Click CTL on the visible keyboard again.    Now it says Ctrl+

(9) Click C on that same drawn keyboard.   Now it says Ctrl+C

(10) Click on OK.

3. To customize screen colors
1. Click OPTIONS
2. Click DISPLAY
3. Customize as desired
4. Click OK
4. To show different colors for unprotected fields (especially useful in SIS)
1. Click OPTIONS
2. Click DISPLAY
3. Click ADVANCED
4. Select ‘Always use 4 color rules’.
5. Click OK
6. Set your colors as described in ‘To customize screen colors’.
5. To customize cut and paste colors
1. Click EDIT.
2. Click PROPERTIES.
3. In the general tab, select colors or rectangle to show selected text.
4. Pick the colors from the appropriate customize button.
5. Click OK
6. RECOMMENDED: Place name on screen prints
1. Click FILE
2. Click PRINT SETUP
3. Click OPTIONS
4. Enter your name in the HEADER field
5. Click OK
7. Set BACKSPACE to a destructive backspace (erases characters)
1. Click OPTIONS
2. Click KEYBOARD
3. Click MISCELLANEOUS
4. Click first box under options
5. Click OK
8. To set 133 character display for Dispatch (SDSF uses settings in TSO)
1. Click SESSION
2. Click CONFIGURE
3. Click the CONNECTION Tab
4. Highlight TN3270/TN3270E
5. Click CONFIGURE (to t he right of the connection type box)
6. Click DEVICE
7. Under ‘Device Type’ select 3279
8. Under ‘Device Model’ select 5 (27x132)
9. Click OK
10. Click on the 3270 EMULATION tab
11. Under ‘Default Screen Model Type’ select Model 5 (27x132)
12. Click APPLY
13. Click OK
14. Adjust your margins as in ‘TO PRINT LANDSCAPE AS YOUR DEFAULT’. (A number of people have both left and right margins set to 0.25)
15. Exit BlueZone, saving your settings
16. When you launch BlueZone again, the changes will have applied
9. To set 80 character display for Dispatch (SDSF uses settings in TSO)
1. Click SESSION
2. Click CONFIGURE
3. Click the CONNECTION Tab
4. Highlight TN3270/TN3270E
5. Click CONFIGURE (to t he right of the connection type box)
6. Click DEVICE
7. Under ‘Device Type’ select 3278
8. Under ‘Device Model’ select 2 (24x80)
9. Click OK
10. Click on the 3270 EMULATION tab
11. Under ‘Default Screen Model Type’ select Model 2 (24x80)
12. Click APPLY
13. Click OK
14. Exit BlueZone, saving your settings
15. When you launch BlueZone again, the changes will have applied
10. To print landscape as your default (The print is only in landscape for items that display on the screen as 132 characters).
1. Click FILE
2. Click PRINT SETUP
3. On the PRINTER/PAGE tab, click the Page Setup/Printer Selection button
4. Change ORIENTATION to landscape
5. Adjust margins to Left 0.2, Right 0.23
6. Click OK
7. Exit BlueZone, saving your settings
8. When you launch BlueZone again, the changes will have applied
11. If you need a “not” sign…CTRL 6
12. If you need a key board sequence for RESET…CTRL R
1. When your screen gets stuck, you can reset it by hitting CTRL+R.
2. Or you can make sure the RESET button is visible as one of the buttons in your ‘Connections Toolbar’ at the top of BlueZone (To Customize Toolbars).
13. FYI…the Bluezone emulator stores your key requests very quickly. Use a “light touch” on ENTER, F7, and F8 or you may be sitting back and waiting for the screen to catch up with all of your requests.

(Many people don’t experience this. If you are not getting this problem, don’t worry about it.)

14. Have you noticed some fields being highlighted and then "misbehaving"? Try
1. Click OPTIONS
2. Click DISPLAY
3. Click GUI
4. Click CUSTOMIZE (top one)
5. Click off the first two "hot spots" options
15. Needing to reset frequently?
1. Click OPTIONS
2. Click KEYBOARD
3. Click MISCELLANEOUS
4. Click AUTO-RESET WHEN KEYBOARD IS LOCKED
5. Click IMMEDIATE AUTO-RESET
6. Click AUTO-TAB AFTER AUTO-RESET
16. Don’t like the PF key buttons at the bottom of the display?
1. ESC is mapped to switch the display to full screen. Using the ESC key allows you to toggle between full screen and display with the ‘power keys’ … OR to permanently remove the keys …
2. Click VIEW
3. Un-click POWER KEYS
17. Cut/copy text leaves the black background when pasted?
1. Click EDIT
2. Click PROPERTIES
3. Click Copy To Clipboard
4. Uncheck Include Bitmap Image of Selection
18. Type ahead feature driving you crazy?
1. Click SESSION
2. Click CONFIGURE
3. Click 3270 EMULATION
4. In Keyboard Type Ahead box, click DISABLE
5. Click OK.
19. To Customize Toolbars
1. Double click the toolbar.
2. To add a key to the toolbar, highlight the key to be added under the Separator value box on the left side of the page. Click Add.
3. To remove a key from the toolbar, highlight the key to be removed under the Current toolbar buttons on the right side of the page. Click Remove.
4. Click CLOSE to go back to the BlueZone screen
5. Click OK
20. Go to next unprotected line.
1. To move the cursor to the next unprotected line, instead of hitting TAB, hit CTRL+ENTER  (This is an existing keypad setting).
21. To go directly to end of line
1. Click OPTIONS
2. Click KEYBOARD
3. Click Miscellaneous Tab
4. There is an option to tell the mainframe what you want the END function to do.   You can set it to move directly to end of line. If you use this setting, you can go to the next word with a CTL+Right-Arrow.
5. Click OK
22. Having a problem copying a field that contains apostrophes from your desktop into a screen on the mainframe? Does the copied version contain hyphens where the apostrophes used to be? (e.g ‘*’ looks like -*-)
1. Click Session
2. Click Configure
3. Click 3270_Emulation
4. Click Translate_Tables
5. To fix all hyphens looking like apostrophes - Click EBDIC_to_ASCII and edit the value for hex 60 (6x across and 0x down) from hex 27 to hex 2D.
6. Then to fix the quotes – Click ASCII_to_EBDIC and edit the value for hex 91 (9x across and 1x down) from hex 60 to hex 7D and edit the value for hex 92 (9x across and 2x down) from hex 60 to hex 7D.
23. To automatically save any BlueZone setting changes when you exit
1. Click FILE
2. Click PROPERTIES
3. Click OPTIONS
4. Select the checkbox ‘Always save configuration settings on Exit’.
5. Click OK
24. To save a copy of your keyboard settings (usually done before installing a new version of BlueZone)
1. Click OPTIONS
2. Click KEYBOARD
3. Click on the floppy diskette icon in the upper right corner of the screen
4. Enter the name you want to save your keyboard under e.g “BlueZone 10-27-04 Keyboard” or anything else you will remember.
5. Click SAVE
6. Click OK
25. To restore old keyboard settings
1. Click OPTIONS
2. Click KEYBOARD
3. Click on the open folder icon in the upper right corner of the screen
4. Highlight the Keyboard file description you want to restore (keyboard files end in .mdk)
5. Click OPEN
6. Click OK
26. To return to the BlueZone default settings and to prepare for re-installation of BlueZone (Run eZClear)
1. From the BlueZone Launch page, click on ‘Get or Run eZClear’
2. Click SAVE
3. Save the file on your desktop.
4. Close your BlueZone emulator session and the BlueZone launch Web page
5. Double click on the ezclear.exe icon on your desktop
6. Select ‘Delete All Internet Cached Files’ and ‘Uninstall Served Desktop’
7. Click YES
8. If you get an Uninstall error message, click OK
9. You are now ready to go to the http://mainframe.cusys.edu web page to re-install BlueZone.