NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) System Management Guide

The NonStop NET/MASTER MS Command Help Database
Customizing Command Help Information
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The Customized Command
Help Database
You can create a customized command help file to contain updates to distributed
command help information, and new command help information. Then you can
install the customized and distributed command help files together. After installation,
as Figure 13-1 shows, the customized and distributed command help databases then
collectively make up the NonStop NET/MASTER MS command help database.
After creating and installing the NonStop NET/MASTER MS command help database,
you can write customized and new command help information to the customized
command help database, while the information in the distributed command help
database remains unchanged. NonStop NET/MASTER MS upgrades do not affect the
customized command help file.
After installing the customized and distributed command help databases, users can
access command help information from either database. When a user requests help for
a command, NonStop NET/MASTER MS always looks in the customized command
help database first (if it exists). If the customized command help database does not
contain help for the command, NonStop NET/MASTER MS looks for it in the
distributed command help database.
You can customize the distributed command help information in the following ways:
You can update information for a distributed command. For example, the LIST
command lists the contents of a file on an OCS window. You may want to write
an NCL procedure that strips the message numbers from the beginning of each
line of an NCL procedure as the line is displayed, then replace the NonStop
NET/MASTER MS command using the SYSPARMS CMDREPL command. If so,
you can update the command help information for the LIST command, explaining
its new functions to users. By writing the updated information to the customized
command help database, you override the information in the distributed
command help database.
Note Because distributed command help information is written in U.S. English and set out in a standard format,
updates to distributed command help information must also be written in U.S. English and should also
follow the standard format.
You can add information for an existing command in a language other than U.S.
English, so that you have command help information for the same command in
more than one language. For example, you may have two groups of users: those
who read U.S. English and those who read German. If so, you may want to
translate the command help information for the LIST command into German and
write the German translation to the customized help database while leaving the
U.S. English version unchanged in the distributed command help database. After
modifying the user ID definition record of the groups of users by providing an
appropriate cultural indicator (described later in this section) in the Language
Code field, you ensure that each user views command help information in the
appropriate language.