NET/MASTER Network Control Language (NCL) Reference Manual

NCL and Major NonStop NET/MASTER Services
Introduction to NCL
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Edit Services Edit Services is the NonStop NET/MASTER MS service that provides access to the
Tandem text editor, PS Text Edit (TEDIT). Edit Services allows NCL programmers to
create and check NCL procedures and panel description files.
For more information on Edit Services, refer to the NonStop NET/MASTER MS
Operator’s Guide.
User ID Management
Services (UMS)
UMS is the NonStop NET/MASTER MS security service that enables you to define
authorized NonStop NET/MASTER MS users and their associated functions and
privileges. UMS gives you the authority to use services of NonStop NET/MASTER
MS. It enables, for example, access to OCS and Edit Services. It also allows you to
define the name of the subvolume in which you store NCL procedures.
You can access the UMS database from NCL. You can retrieve, check, and change
UMS information from an NCL procedure.
If your installation is not using UMS as the security system to maintain user ID
information, but is using its own security system, you can use NCL to gather
information from it and to pass it to UMS.
For more information on UMS, refer to the NonStop NET/MASTER MS Operator’s Guide
and the NonStop NET/MASTER MS System Management Guide.
Inter-NET/MASTER
Connection (INMC)
INMC is the NonStop NET/MASTER MS service that allows the connection of
multiple NonStop NET/MASTER MS users to multiple users of the SOLVE
management services. INMC also allows for such connections to be controlled from a
single location.
If you have many INMC links with other systems, then you need to use many
NonStop NET/MASTER MS commands to define and start these links. You can write
an NCL procedure to do so automatically at NonStop NET/MASTER MS startup.
In addition, you can write an NCL procedure to continuously monitor the status of all
links. You can instruct the NCL procedure to report if any links fail and to
automatically try to restart them. The NCL procedure can report the results of its
attempts in the OCS message display area.
For more information on INMC, refer to the NonStop NET/MASTER MS Operator’s
Guide and the NonStop NET/MASTER MS System Management Guide.
Remote Operator Control
(ROC)
ROC is the NonStop NET/MASTER MS service that allows local NonStop
NET/MASTER MS users to log on to a remote NonStop NET/MASTER MS system, or
to log on to a remote system running the SOLVE management services. ROC executes
commands on the remote system, and allows you to receive the results at the local
NonStop NET/MASTER MS system.
Results from commands entered in OCS are displayed in the OCS message display
area at the local system. Results from commands issued by an NCL process can be
sent to the NCL process for analysis.
For more information on ROC, refer to the NonStop NET/MASTER MS Operator’s Guide
and the NonStop NET/MASTER MS System Management Guide.