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.
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:
Reading from left to right in Figure 16, the window information
line includes:
- A left and right scroll indicator (>)
- A window identifier (W1)
- A view name (PROGRAM)
- A form name (PROGRAMS)
- The current context of the window (EYUPLX01)
- The current scope of the window (EYUCSG01)
- The date (02FEB1994) and time (11:30:30)
- The product name (CPSM)
- The number of records in the view (166)
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:
- The first character shows the current status of the window. It can be
one of:
- W (waiting), meaning that the window contains data and is available for
use
- T (temporary), meaning that the window is empty and no commands are processing
- E (error), meaning that an error has occurred as a result of an action
directed to that window
- L (locked), meaning that the window contents cannot be updated automatically
- P (pending), meaning that a command is currently processing
For a more detailed discussion of the window status values, see Displaying the window status description.
- The rest of the code shows the number assigned by CICSPlex SM to the window.
Window numbers range from 1 through 20 and are assigned sequentially.
- 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.
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.)
The ISPF command SPLITV is not supported.
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