We recently upgraded our server from AIX 3.3.2 to AIX 5.1.0. Since then you
have to press the down arrow twice for it to go down once on a SMIT screen.
This only happens on the first down-arrow press, not the subsequent ones.
For example, I call up smit from root and to go from 'Software Installation
and Maintenance' to 'Software License Management', I have to press the
down-arrow twice. But to go from 'Software License Management' to 'Devices',
I only have to press it once. This occurs on every invocation of a new
screen, For example, if I go to the 'Devices' menu, have to press the
down-arrow to go from 'Install/Configure Devices Added After IPL' to
'Printer/Plotter', and a single arrow for the next line, etc. For me, it is
no big deal, but out ERP application requires the wyse 50 and its screens
have the same down-arrow problem.

Scott Howell wrote:
> We recently upgraded our server from AIX 3.3.2 to AIX 5.1.0.

No you didn't - no such thing as 3.3.2 ever. 3.2.3 maybe. In which case
you've been out of support for a decade.

> Since then you
> have to press the down arrow twice for it to go down once on a SMIT screen.
> This only happens on the first down-arrow press, not the subsequent ones.
> For example, I call up smit from root and to go from 'Software Installation
> and Maintenance' to 'Software License Management', I have to press the
> down-arrow twice. But to go from 'Software License Management' to 'Devices',
> I only have to press it once. This occurs on every invocation of a new
> screen, For example, if I go to the 'Devices' menu, have to press the
> down-arrow to go from 'Install/Configure Devices Added After IPL' to
> 'Printer/Plotter', and a single arrow for the next line, etc.

I suggest restoring the /usr/lib/terminfo/w/wy50 from your backup from
3.2.3 and see if it's different from that on 5.1. Since the Wyse50
hasn't changed over that time, I suspect that the file hasn't. However,
if you still have a problem, submit a support call as at least now, you
are supported.

> For me, it is
> no big deal, but out ERP application requires the wyse 50 and its screens
> have the same down-arrow problem.

You need a new release of the app for sure.