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

Factors Affecting Panel Description File Location
Working With Panels
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From OCS, you can use the LIST command to display the contents of a panel
description file, using the ID operand to specify the name of the panel library, as the
following screen shows:
(11:37) --------------------- OPERATOR CONTROL SERVICES ----------------------
LIST ZUMSMN1P ID=$DATA9.ZNNMPDS
NNM1018 #NOTE
NNM1018 #NOTE NonStop NET/MASTER - T6581D30 - 22JUL91
NNM1018 #NOTE (C)1990, COPYRIGHT 1990 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS INTERNATIONAL
PTY. LTD.
NNM1018 #NOTE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
NNM1018 #NOTE
NNM1018 #NOTE Main Menu of UMS
NNM1018 #OPT DEFAULT=%+# ALARM=&alrm
NNM1018 #OPT ERRFLD=&sysfld
NNM1018 #ERR ALARM=YES INTENS=HIGH COLOUR=RED HLIGHT=REVERSE
NNM1018 #FLD % COLOUR=YELLOW INTENS=HIGH
NNM1018 #FLD ! INTENS=HIGH TYPE=INPUT COLOUR=WHITE PSKIP=&ZPMENU
NNM1018 #FLD { TYPE=OUTPUT INTENS=HIGH COLOUR=TURQUOISE PAD=- JUST=L
NNM1018 #FLD } TYPE=OUTPUT INTENS=HIGH COLOUR=TURQUOISE PAD=- JUST=R
NNM1018 #FLD | TYPE=OUTPUT INTENS=HIGH COLOUR=TURQUOISE
NNM1018 #FLD ~ TYPE=OUTPUT INTENS=HIGH COLOUR=RED
NNM1018 #FLD ^ TYPE=OUTPUT INTENS=HIGH COLOUR=YELLOW
NNM1018 #FLD * INTENS=HIGH TYPE=INPUT COLOUR=TURQUOISE HLITE=USCORE
NNM1018 #FLD @ INTENS=HIGH TYPE=INPUT BLANKS=TRAIL
NNM1018 #FLD @ COLOUR=TURQUOISE HLIGHT=USCORE
MSG QUEUED ------------------ NonStop NET/MASTER D30 ---------------- --------
M=>
Factors Affecting
Panel Description File
Location
Many factors affect what your NonStop NET/MASTER MS system does when an NCL
process attempts to display a panel. There are some factors that affect where your
NonStop NET/MASTER MS system tries to locate the panel description file and there
are others that affect what your NonStop NET/MASTER MS system does when it
locates it. This subsection discusses the following topics:
How NonStop NET/MASTER MS uses the active panel queue to keep panel
description files in memory
How NonStop NET/MASTER MS uses the default search path to search for panel
description files
How to customize the panel search path
How preloading and unloading panel description files affect panel display
How the setting of test mode affects panel loading
How all these factors interact
The Active Panel Queue A panel description file that is loaded into memory is kept in a queue called the active
panel queue.
The active panel queue stores two types of panel description files: those loaded by
reference, that is, loaded as a result of using the PANEL verb from an NCL process to
refer to a panel description file by name; and those that have been explicitly preloaded,
that is, loaded using the SYSPARMS PPRELOAD command. (Panel description files