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Locking Columns
You can use the NUM–LOCKED–COLUMNS attribute to prevent one or more browse columns from scrolling out of the browse viewport when the horizontal scrollbar is used. A non-horizontal-scrolling column is referred to as a locked column.
Locked columns are always the left-most columns in the browse. In other words, if you set NUM–LOCKED–COLUMNS to 2, the first two columns listed in the DEFINE BROWSE statement will be locked. In the example below, the customer number and name never move out of the browse viewport, no matter which of the remaining fields the user accesses with the horizontal scrollbar:
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