NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) System Management Guide

Culture and Command Help Display
Customizing Command Help Information
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Displaying Detailed Command Help Information
Detailed command help information is displayed when you obtain help for a specific
command or command/operand combination, as shown in the following screen:
HELP ---------- DEBUG MODIFY : Modifies the value of a variable ---------- HELP
Press F3 to end, F8 to scroll forward, F7 to scroll back.
Function: Modifies the value of a variable in an NCL process.
+---------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| DEBUG | MODIFY |
| (0/1) | < ID=ncl-id > |
| | < ( FORMAT | F )=( NORMAL | N ) | ( BINARY | B ) > |
| | < ( SCOPE | SC )=nesting-level > |
| | ( VAR | VBL | V )=variable-name |
| | VAL=value |
+---------+---------------------------------------------------------+
Use: (NonStop NET/MASTER only)
The DEBUG MODIFY command modifies the value of a variable
in an NCL process.
Operands: ID=ncl-id
specifies the NCL ID of an NCL process. If you do not
specify an NCL ID, the command refers to the current NCL
process.
Culture and Command
Help Display
When a user requests help for a command, two factors (in addition to the name of the
command or command/operand abbreviation) determine what help information is
displayed: the cultural indicator assigned to a command, and the language code
assigned to a user. This section discusses the following topics:
The cultural indicator assigned to a command
The language code assigned to a user
How these factors interact to determine help display
The Cultural Indicator
Assigned to a Command
Culture refers to a set of features such as language, spelling, character set, conventions
used for representing date, time, and currency formats, and so on that reflect the
characteristics of help information.
Every command is assigned a code, or cultural indicator, that reflects its culture.
Distributed commands are assigned a cultural indicator of “US,” which indicates that
the help information is written in U.S. English and follows the rules and conventions
of writing in U.S. English. Customized commands are normally assigned a
meaningful installation-defined cultural indicator.
The same command or command/operand combination can exist in the command
help database with more than one cultural indicator. For example, the LIST command
is distributed with a cultural indicator of “US.” If you translate the help information
for the LIST command into another language—for example, German—you can add the