Quoting Brian Donaldson <[log in to unmask]>:

> I have a Cobol/Vplus app that allows users to maintain and stream jobs.
>
> Works fine unless the job happens to have Vesoft's STREAMX stuff in it.
>
> So, I introduced the VTURNOFF/VTURNON procedures to let the user
> provide STREAMX with the necessary prompt responses.
>
> After the job is streamed I call VTURNON. Unfortunately, the screen is
> all messed up, partially blank and just isn't behaving normally as it was
> before I called VTURNOFF.
>
> I moved the COMAREA to a working-storage hold area before calling VTURNOFF.
> After the job is streamed I move the working-storage hold area back to
> COMAREA hoping this would solve the problem but it didn't do anything for me.
>
> Anyone out there who knows the solution to this one?
>
> TIA,
> Brian.

When printing screen contents, printing to the attached printer or streaming
jobs to allow users to intereact with streamx I do:

CALL "VCLOSETERM" USING COMAREA.

do whatever needs to be done "outside of the vplus screen"
then...

CALL "VOPENTERM" USING COMAREA TERM-TYPE.

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