Thanks for the information but we cannot understand the documentation you directed me too.

Is it possible to provide some example breakout program code to do the following (if it is possible to do it)

Pick up a number from a fixed position on a 5250 screen. Create a button in this position with text equal to the number. When the button is clicked execute an AS400 command, in icecap, with a parameter containing the number from the screen.

Question 2

We have a subfile, 2 records per line, which looks like this

                Enquiries                 1076 GHD Order processing         
 1114 Item Master Enquiry                              Other Options        
  820 Vendors                             1167 Direct IERep Sales Dwnld -4494
  831 Store Enquiry                       1306 Direct IERep Sales Dwnld -7955
 1507 Item description search             1161 UK Direct Rep Sales Download 
                  Orders                  1121 Locations                    
  839 Manual Order Entry - Branch          808 Switch Default Warehouse     
  861 Transfer/Branch Order Enquiry                         SOP             
  862 Transfer Maintenance                1546 SOP Sales Order Entry        
 1033 Enter Store GHD orders              1548 SOP RMA Entry: Order Selection
  844 Work with Provisional Orders        1549 SOP RMA Authorisation        
           View Pending orders            1552 SOP Order Selection          
 1170 Store Pending Orders Blackburn      1554 SOP RMA Selection            
 1171 Pending Store Orders (T/Bank)       1555 SOP miscellaneous credit entry
  970 Store/Sale number enquiry           1556 SOP misc. invoice entry        

I would like to turn the numbers (e.g. 1170) into a button and execute an AS400 command with the number 1170 as a parameter

e.g. XICE PARM('1170')

Claus

Both. In 5250 we can double click  (use the cursor position) or enter the number at the bottom of the screen.

We can use the method you supplied to use the cursor position method in Icecap but clicking, or double clicking, does not work very well for our Users for a number of reasons, including it is too easy to 'select' the text on the screen. Our Users find it quite difficult to select by simply clicking or double clicking in the Icecap window. It can take several attempts to get it right.

Buttons would be much easier to use for our Users plus any technique used to achieve buttons on the above screen would be extremely useful elsewhere.