NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) System Management Guide

Customizing the Panel Search Path
Customizing the Operations Environment
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Note Refer to the NonStop NET/MASTER NCL Programmer’s Guide for a detailed discussion of loading,
preloading, and unloading panel description files.
Information about preloaded panel description files can enable you to manage use of
system resources more effectively. For example, the use statistics can help you
determine whether a preloaded panel description file is used frequently enough to
warrant consumption of resources associated with preloading it.
You should consider preloading a panel description file, if the value in the HITS
column indicates that the panel description file is frequently displayed: that is, there is
a relatively high number in the HITS column. You should consider unloading a panel
description file that currently has a status of PRELOADED, if the value in the HITS
column indicates that the panel description file is infrequently displayed.
The SYSPARMS MAXPANEL command specifies the maximum number of panel
description files that can be loaded (not preloaded) into memory. You can use the
value specified by this command to improve the speed at which panels are displayed.
NonStop NET/MASTER MS retains copies of the most recently displayed panels
according to the value specified by this command and tracks those panels that are
used least, eventually removing them from the queue in favor of panels that are used
more often. Increasing the value of this operand reduces the frequency with which
new copies of panels are retrieved from the panel library; this, however, increases the
storage requirements of the system.
Removing a Preloaded
Panel Description File
Use the PUNLOAD operand of the SYSPARMS command to remove a panel
description file that was preloaded with the SYSPARMS PPRELOAD command. For
example, to remove a preloaded panel description file named TESTPANL, issue the
following command:
SYSPARMS PUNLOAD=TESTPANL
Customizing the Panel
Search Path
The default panel search path is the order used, by default, to locate a panel
description file when an NCL procedure attempts to display a panel. Section 3,
“Configuring NonStop NET/MASTER MS,” describes the default panel search path.
This subsection describes how to create panel object files to include in a customized
panel search path, and how to customize the search order in the path.
Note RMS is distributed with a panel object file, which must appear in the customized panel search path for
RMS to be operational. Refer to the NonStop NET/MASTER RMS Management and Operations Guide
for more information.
Creating a Panel Object File
for the Customized Search
Path
NonStop NET/MASTER MS is distributed with a file that has the object code for panel
description files required by NonStop NET/MASTER MS. This panel object file is part
of the default panel search path.