NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) Command Reference Manual

EQUATE
NonStop NET/MASTER MS Commands
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A local equate is a symbol created by an individual user using this command after
NonStop NET/MASTER MS startup. A local equate is effective only for a specific
user and only in the OCS window from which this command is executed. When
you exit from OCS, local equates are lost. When you display all available equates
using the SHOW EQUATES command, this type of equate is displayed with type
LOCL.
You can define a local equate in OCS to override a global equate with type GLBL,
but not type REPL. The value of the global equate is restored when you exit from
OCS.
A local equate is effective for every NCL process executed from the OCS window
from which the the command is executed.
Equates created by the READY NCL procedure (the NCL procedure executed
immediately after the INIT NCL procedure) are local equates and are effective
only for the Background System Process (BSYS) in the BSYS region.
The substitution of equated text is performed on the leading characters of an
entered command. Substitution is not performed on occurrences of the equated
text that occur in the entered command text.
You cannot assign concatenated NonStop NET/MASTER MS commands to a
symbol.
You should end the symbol with a plus sign (+) if you want equate substitution to
occur only when the symbol you enter is followed by a blank. The plus sign
indicates that the symbol requires a trailing blank. You must follow the equate by
a blank when you enter it.
You should end the text with a plus sign (+) if the text represents a prefix that is to
be added to some other command or operand when an intervening blank is
required. The plus sign indicates that the text requires a trailing blank. NonStop
NET/MASTER MS automatically inserts the blank after the equate.
If an NCL procedure contains a symbol that conflicts with a word that NCL
reserves in the current context, the fact that the symbol represents an equate is
ignored. The symbol is processed according to the rules of NCL.
You can follow a symbol by a null value to remove the text value from the symbol.
For related information, see the SHOW EQUATES command.