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

Factors Affecting Panel Description File Location
Working With Panels
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Note Reducing the value of the SYSPARMS MAXPANEL from its current value to 1 clears all but one of the
panel description files loaded by reference from the queue. (The most recent panel description file loaded
by reference remains on the queue.)
Test Mode Test mode is the name given to a setting that you control while you are writing and
testing NCL procedures and panel description files. The setting of test mode affects
how an NCL process attempts to locate a panel description file.
Test mode is controlled from OCS. The setting of test mode is part of your OCS
profile. The NonStop NET/MASTER MS command that controls test mode is the
PROFILE NCLTEST command.
You can set test mode on using the PROFILE NCLTEST=YES command. Setting test
mode on forces NonStop NET/MASTER MS to load a panel description file from disk.
If test mode is on, and an NCL process attempts to locate a panel description file,
NonStop NET/MASTER MS does not attempt to search for it in the panel queue.
Setting test mode on overrides the setting of the SYSPARMS PPRELOAD command.
It is recommended that you set test mode on while you are writing and testing NCL
procedures and panel description files. This ensures that the panel description file
being displayed is always the most recent version. The following command sets test
mode on:
PROFILE NCLTEST=YES
If test mode is off, the panel description file that is displayed may not be the most
recent version. The following command sets test mode off:
PROFILE NCLTEST=NO
Hint To improve the performance of an NCL process, set test mode on only when developing and testing NCL
procedures and panel description files.
How Panel Description File
Location Factors Interact
This subsection summarizes how the use of the default search path, preloading,
unloading, and the test mode setting affect each other when a panel description file is
displayed.
The setting of test mode is the first factor that your NonStop NET/MASTER MS
system uses when it searches for a panel description file. The summary that follows,
therefore, describes what happens when test mode is on and off.