HOLD

The HOLD command specifies the ORDER of data items to HOLD on the screen when scrolling in Formatted and Vertical Formatted mode of Browse and Edit. The fields are kept on the screen in the ORDER specified. You can use reverse field range with the HOLD primary command.

Entering the HOLD primary command without an operand displays the HIDE and HOLD Settings pop-up listing all the fields in the record. This pop-up indicates the display status of each field and enables you to enter line commands for each field. The line commands allow you to reset a field to display and/or reorder the display of fields using the HOLD line command.

field-number

Holds the specified field number(s).

field-number-range

Holds the specified range of field numbers. Reverse field range is supported. For example: HOLD 3-1 6 displays 3,2,1,6,4,5,7,9...

Guidelines

You can redisplay the HIDE and HOLD Settings pop-up at any time by entering HOLD <blank>, HIDE <blank>, or HIDE ALL in the Command field.

Entering a second HOLD command on a field already HELD moves that field to the end of the HOLD fields displayed. ex. HOLD 3,2,1 displays 3,2,1,4,5... And entering HOLD 2 subsequently displays 3,1,2,4,5...

Any fields which were hidden by Display OFF, Display ONLY or HIDE are redisplayed when the HOLD command or DISPLAY ON is entered with that field number.

All held or hidden fields are released by entering the RESET primary command. All held fields are released by the RESET HOLD primary command.

Fields are identified by their field numbers. In VFMT mode each field number is always shown at the left of each field's heading "ruler".