This Natural profile and session parameter can be used to suppress the display of filler characters for input fields that have been made write-protected dynamically (that is, to which the attribute AD=P has been assigned via an attribute control variable).

Possible settings	ON	Dynamically protected input fields are displayed filled with filler characters. This may suggest to the users that they could enter something in the fields.
	OFF	Dynamically protected input fields are displayed filled with blanks.
Default setting	ON
Dynamic specification	yes
Specification within session	yes
Applicable statements	SET GLOBALS
Applicable command	GLOBALS
Application programming interface	USR1005N	See SYSEXT - Natural Application Programming Interfaces in the Utilities documentation.

Notes:

1. Depending on the setting of the FCDP parameter, dynamically protected input fields are displayed filled either with blanks or with the defined filler characters.
2. Within a Natural session, the profile parameter FCDP can be overridden by the session parameter FCDP.

Example:

DEFINE DATA LOCAL 
   1 #FIELD1 (A5) 
   1 #FIELD2 (A5) 
   1 #CVAR1  (C) INIT <(AD=P)> 
   1 #CVAR2  (C) 
   END-DEFINE 
   * 
   INPUT #FIELD1 (AD=Y'_' CV=#CVAR1)  /* field is protected 
         #FIELD2 (AD=Y'_' CV=#CVAR2)  /* field is not protected 
   ... 
   END

Execution of the above program will display the following:

FCDP=ON:

#FIELD1 _____ #FIELD2 _____

FCDP=OFF:

#FIELD1       #FIELD2 _____