Windows

A window is a subdivision of the display area of the information display panel. When you begin a CICSPlex® SM session, the display area of the information display panel contains one window by default. During the session, you can open up to 19 additional windows (giving a maximum of 20) in a single display area. This means that you can see a variety of related information all at one time. How to open and use additional windows is described in Manipulating the contents of a window.

Windows in a single information display panel are logically independent of each other, and independent processing can occur simultaneously in those windows. You can simultaneously perform actions in more than one window by pressing Enter only once after you type commands in several windows. The results of commands entered in this manner are displayed simultaneously as soon as the command having the longest processing time is processed. Only those windows in which you typed commands contain new information; other windows are not affected.

Note:
If you type no commands, but press Enter, the contents of all windows are updated.

If you issue the ISPF command SPLIT to divide the physical screen into two logical screens, or windows, you can open a different CICSPlex SM session in each screen. The display area of each panel can contain up to 20 windows. 1

Figure 15 shows an information display panel that contains three windows. In this example, windows 1 and 3 contain information, while window 2 is open but contains no data.

Figure 15. Multiple windows in the display area
 The display area is divided into three separate windows.  One window extends vertically down the display area.  Two windows occupy the remainder of the display area, which has been divided horizontally.

The window information line

The top line of a CICSPlex SM window is called the window information line. It differentiates the window from other windows in the display area, and describes the window contents. Figure 16 shows an example of the window information line:

Figure 16. The window information line
>W1=PROGRAM==PROGRAMS==EYUPLX01=EYUCSG01=02FEB1994==11:30:30==CPSM======166=

Reading from left to right in Figure 16, the window information line includes:

The window information line of the current window contains equal signs (=). The window information lines of all other windows contain dashes (-). Each of the fields in the window information line is described in the rest of this section.

Left and right scroll indicator
At the extreme left of the window information line you might see any of the characters <, >, and +. The less than symbol (<) means that there is more data to the left; the greater than symbol (>) means that there is more data to the right; the plus sign (+) means that there is more data to both the left and the right that can be scrolled into view.
Window identifier
The window identifier is a two- or three-character code, where:
View
View is the name of the view resulting from the view command most recently directed to this window. Views are described in Views.
Form
Form is the name of the form of data resulting from the most recently issued view command. The form name is displayed only when it differs from the view name. If the form name ends with the letter "S" (as in PROGRAMS), the form is a summary of the view. If the form name ends with the letter "D" (as in PROGRAMD), the form is a detail view, usually of a single occurrence of a resource. View forms are described in Views.
Context
The context value is the name of a CICSplex or CMAS. It identifies the set of CICSPlex SM or CICS® resources that can be affected by commands directed to this window.
Scope
The scope value is the name of a CICS system or CICS system group that is a subset of the CICSplex identified as the context, or is the name of the CICSplex itself. This field is ignored when the context is a CMAS.
Note:
This field contains an asterisk (*), meaning no scope is in effect, when this window is displayed as a result of initiating a hyperlink from PlexManager. It also contains an asterisk (*) if no scope is specified on the CICSPlex System Manager entry panel. When the context is a CICSplex, you must specify a scope before performing any other actions.
Date
This value is the date of the most recent change to the view.
Time
This value is the time of the most recent change to the view.
Product
This value is the abbreviated name of the product. It can be either CPSM or PLEXMGR.
Number of records
At the extreme right of the window information line is a count of the number of records in the view. For a detail view, which provides information about a single resource, this value is always 1. For a summary view or a general view, which contain information about multiple resources in a tabular form, the count is the number of rows in the table. (Detail, summary, and general views are described in Views.)

The information display panel always contains at least two sets of date and time values. The date and time in the control area of the information display panel indicate when the panel was last updated. Each window information line also contains date and time values that indicate when the contents of the window were last updated.

Clearing messages

CICSPlex SM messages appear in the window, completely overlaying the displayed view. When there are more messages than will fit in the window, you can press Enter to display the next group of messages. When there are no more messages, press Enter again to clear the messages and redisplay the view.

(You can press PF8 to scroll through the messages and redisplay the view. This has the effect of also scrolling the view. When you redisplay the view, different information is visible.)


1.
The ISPF command SPLITV is not supported.

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