OSI/MHS Configuration and Management Manual

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user message. An octet string, which can be of a standardized content type, such as IPM or

EDI. A user message can contain one of a variety of encoded information types, such

as text, facsimile, graphics, or voice.

value. See attribute value.

value position. The position of a value of a multivalued attribute.

ViewPoint console application. An extensible interactive application for operators, provided

as part of DSM. ViewPoint allows a system or a network to be controlled from a single

terminal. It includes several block-mode display screens for event messages, a block-

mode display for system or network status, a conversational TACL screen, and a

facility called Define Process to maintain sessions with multiple subsystems at the

same time.

wait manager process. A type of queue manager process.

warning. In DSM interfaces, a condition, encountered in performing a command or other

operation, that can be significant but does not cause the command or operation to fail.

A warning is less serious than an error.

wild-card character. A character that stands for any possible characters in a search string

or in a name applying to multiple objects. In object-name templates, two wild-card

characters can appear: ? for a single character and * for zero, one, or more

consecutive characters. In O/R name attributes, a single asterisk in place of the

attribute indicates “not used.” In the X121-ADDR and NUMERIC-USER-ID attributes

of the ADD APPL, ALTER APPL, ADD ROUTE, and ALTER ROUTE commands, a

single asterisk (*) can substitute for the trailing characters of the attribute value, and

the double asterisk (**) can substitute for the entire value. In SPI, a length of 1 and a

value of a single asterisk indicates full wild-carding of an X121-ADDR or NUMERIC-

USER-ID attribute.