NET/MASTER Network Control Language (NCL) Programmer's Guide

The ASSIGN and DROP Verbs
Working With Mapping Services
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Format 1 of the ASSIGN
Verb
Format 1 of the ASSIGN verb is the default form of the verb (where OPT=VALUE
follows the ASSIGN keyword).
Creating an MDO Variable
MDO variables can be created in two ways—automatically by Mapping Services as a
result of certain verbs or explicitly by using the ASSIGN verb. Table 10-2 lists the
verbs that automatically create MDO variables.
Table 10-2. Verbs That Automatically Create an MDO Variable
Verb Comment
EMSREAD Automatically creates an MDO variable to hold an Event Management
Service (EMS) message. The stem is always &$EMS..
INTREAD Automatically creates an MDO variable to hold a message from a dependent
processing environment. The stem is always &$INT..
FILE GET Automatically creates an MDO variable to hold a record read from a mapped
user database (UDB). Naming a stem after the MDO operand on the FILE
GET verb creates an MDO variable with that stem name.
FILE PUTGET Automatically creates an MDO variable when it gets a record from a
Guardian process. Naming a stem after the MDO operand in the FILE
PUTGET verb creates an MDO variable with that stem name.
LOGREAD Automatically creates an MDO variable to hold a message destined for the
activity log. The stem is always &$LOG..
MSGREAD Automatically creates an MDO variable to hold a message destined for an
OCS window. The stem is always &$MSG..
PSEND SEND Automatically creates an MDO variable to hold the reply message from a
Pathway server class. Naming a stem after the MDO operand in the PSEND
SEND verb creates an MDO variable with that stem name.
SECCALL GET Automatically creates an MDO variable to hold a record read from the User
ID Management Services (UMS) database. Naming a stem after the MDO
operand in the SECCALL GET verb creates an MDO variable with that stem
name.
SECCALL QUERY Automatically creates an MDO variable to hold user ID information read from
memory. Naming a stem after the MDO operand in the SECCALL QUERY
verb creates an MDO variable with that stem name.