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

Panel Skipping and Navigation in the Panel Hierarchy
Working With Panels
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The panel description file exists in the panel library but is not accessible. The
following messages indicate this error:
UNABLE TO ACCESS PANEL panel
PANEL panel , ERROR G-error-number
If these error messages are displayed, use the SHOW FILEINFO command from
OCS to check the security attributes of the file or examine the accompanying
Guardian error number. (The error number is the value in the variable
&SYSMSG.)
The panel description file exists in the panel library but could not be displayed
because of an error in the panel description file. The following message indicates
this error:
ERROR DISPLAYING PANEL panel , RC= return-code
This error message could indicate that a panel control statement was incorrect: for
example, it could indicate that you misspelled #ERR as #EER. If this error
message is displayed, check the panel control statements in the panel description
file. (The return code is the value in the &SYS.RETCODE system variable.)
Panel Skipping and
Navigation in the Panel
Hierarchy
Conceptually, a series of panels forms a tree with a top-level menu (primary menu) at
the root. Every node of the tree corresponds to the certain panel being displayed at a
certain level.
Navigation allows the user to skip from one place to another within the tree. For the
interactive user, this appears as panel skipping, the technique that allows a user to
bypass intermediate menu screens, so that they are not displayed, and to go directly to
a function by explicitly entering the path.
Panel skipping uses commands such as the following to move from panel to panel:
Command Result
= Skips to the main, top-level primary menu from any menu level.
2 Skips to OCS from the top-level primary menu.
=S.3 Skips to the System Support Services Activity Log Browse Facility from any
menu level.
=S.S Skips to the System Support Services Display/Update SYSPARMS Settings
from any menu level.
=M.L Skips to the User ID Management Services List User Definition panel for
your user ID definition record from any menu level.
=M.B;NMTZC Skips to the User ID Management Services Browse User Definition panel
for the user ID definition record NMTZC from any menu level.
=8.ABC Opens the file ABC for editing in the current procedure library from any
menu level.
=S.3.F C NNM0999 Finds the first message with NNM0999 in the activity log from any menu
level.