Traditionally most programmers tend to use conditioning indicators within their display file DDS to control the use of attributes such as colour, reverse image, blink, position cursor, etc. While this is straightforward, it can be cumbersome and cause confusion when debugging your program and there is another way. By using what are known as P-Fields, you can assign a single character field to an input or output field on your display file and then assign the P-field the hexadecimal attribute value that you want to assign the field. The example code below shows how to assign and use P-fields.