ViewPoint Manual

Using ViewPoint
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Observing Alternate Events
To display message text associated with an event, follow these steps:
1. Press F1 to display the TACL screen, if it is not already selected.
2. Press F3 to display the Primary Events screen.
3. Press F8 to freeze the screen. Then, select 3 or 4 event messages that appear
truncated (where the text is more than the 62-character limit). Do this by typing any
character next to the message.
4. Press F11 to display the Event Detail screen.
Detail is shown for the first message you select.
The first line shows the date and time of the event, the process that generated it, the
subsystem identification number, and the event number.
The third line contains the beginning of the full text of the message. Following this,
(depending on the messages you selected) lines are provided for Cause, Effect, and
Recovery text.
To print this screen, press F9. To copy selected lines to your clipboard file, press
F10. For details, see the steps under “Printing Status Information” earlier in this
section.
5. Press F11 to view the event detail for the next event that you selected.
6. Press F11 one or more times, depending on how many events you selected. When
you press F11 after viewing the final selected event, the display returns to the events
screen. (You can also return at any time by pressing F16.)
Observing Alternate Events
You can display specific event messages with the Alternate Events screen. Depending
on how your terminal is configured, the alternate-event messages might be identical to
the event messages shown on the Primary Events screen.
Even if the alternate-events display is the same as the primary-events display, you still
might need to request the Alternate Events screen. A number of functions are available
only through the Alternate Events screen and its configuration screen. For instance, you
use the Alternate Events and the Alternate Events Configuration screens to customize
events for your particular terminal (as described in the steps under “Creating
Configuration Files,” later in this section).
You also use the Alternate Events screen to see messages describing historical events—
that is, events that occurred at a particular point in time, as shown in the next subsection
“Observing Historical Events.”
Note. The maximum number of Alternate Event screens that can be configured on a single
ViewPoint installation on a G-Series system is 70. The maximum number of Alternate Event
screens that can be configured on a D-Series system installation is 50.