Abstract for GDDM-PGF OPS User's Guide

• How to use this book
• An important note on national languages
• Latest GDDM information
• GDDM publications

Introducing OPS

• An overview of OPS
• Creating online presentations with OPS
• Advantages of online presentations
• What you need to use OPS
• Starting OPS
• Choosing the EXEC for your language
• Starting OPS under CMS
• Starting OPS under TSO
• Allocating output data sets under TSO
• Getting to know OPS
• Choosing the sample you need
• Working with the presentation samples
• Using the samples under TSO
• Using the samples under CMS
• Choosing your sample
• Making your own presentation from the sample
• Printing or plotting the changed sample
• Saving the changed sample for later use
• Beyond the samples

OPS: a user's guide

• Presentations
• Types of presentations
• Public presentations
• Private presentations (online information)
• Basic principles
• Presentation pages
• Presentation principles by example
• Knowing where you are at the start of presentation pages
• Rules for using the PREFIX command
• Rules for using RESET and DEFAULTS
• The first page of a presentation
• How to create presentations
• How to start
• Editing
• Displaying the coordinate system
• Adding objects to the picture
• Controlling the accuracy of cursor reading
• Reading coordinates from the screen
• Deleting objects
• Working in draft mode
• Testing commands
• Using the TEST command
• Modifying an existing object
• Copying and moving objects
• Deleting objects
• Adding commands to your presentation
• Creating a put file
• Copying the put file into the infile
• Changing your infile
• Leaving OPS
• Exercise: adding and moving objects
• Adding objects
• Moving objects
• Creating presentations using EXECs or CLISTs
• OPS commands
• Command structure
• Command words
• Operands
• Types of operands
• Rules for using operands
• Arithmetic expressions in operands
• Infile commands
• Changing the command prefix
• Comments
• Defining keyboard keys as commands
• Assigning the PF keys to commands
• Assigning the Enter key to commands
• Recalling commands
• Recalling the last command
• Recalling the last 100 commands
• Error messages
• Where to find information on commands
• OPS command list
• Controlling OPS display
• Selecting the mode
• Using normal mode
• The message field
• The command field
• The graphics field
• Using dark mode
• Controlling alphanumeric fields
• Controlling the message field
• Controlling the command field
• Controlling PF keys
• Controlling the aspect ratio of the graphics field
• Clearing the graphics field
• Invoking GDDM user control mode
• Using the coordinate system
• Units in the coordinate system
• Adjusting the coordinate system
• Text in presentations
• Basic text handling
• Symbol sets
• Selecting symbol sets
• Controlling the character box
• Coloring text
• Using translation tables
• The nameless translation table
• Named translation tables
• Releasing symbol sets
• Advanced text handling
• Setting defaults for text
• Controlling the space between characters
• Putting text in the infile
• Controlling the space between lines
• Italicizing text
• Positioning text
• The current point
• Inserting space between text lines
• Indenting text
• Centering text
• Aligning text
• Positioning text exactly
• Arranging text in columns
• Coloring individual words and characters
• Manipulating text strings
• Specifying the text string
• Aligning text
• Specifying the font
• Transforming the text string
• Putting text in a box
• Forcing a line break
• Creating headers and footers
• Text formatting commands
• Starting text formatting
• Writing text in paragraphs
• Creating ordered and unordered lists
• Temporarily suspending text formatting
• Using TRCs to select symbol sets
• Writing markers on the screen
• Line art
• Line and area attributes
• Setting line attributes
• Unspecific DRAW attributes
• Setting area attributes
• Using basic colors and patterns
• Erasing areas before filling
• Unspecific FILL attributes
• Using general colors with OPS
• Controlling color mixing
• Drawing wide lines
• Setting points on the screen
• Drawing lines
• Defining the line
• Moving the current point
• Setting the line attributes
• Setting the line width
• Filling wide lines
• Creating rounded corners
• Drawing curves
• Turning and shearing lines
• Changing the center of the line
• Drawing polygons
• Drawing arrows
• Controlling arrow heads and tails
• Drawing boxes
• Controlling the alignment of boxes
• Adding a 3-D effect to boxes
• Controlling attributes of boxes
• Turning and shearing boxes
• Using BOX as a subcommand of TEXT
• Drawing circles
• Drawing arcs
• Drawing pie slices
• Drawing rays
• Drawing DASD symbols
• Grouping objects together
• Common additional features for fillable objects
• Erasing fillable objects
• Drawing shadows behind fillable objects
• Displacing objects
• Filling the background
• Drawing frames
• Displaying pictures
• Displaying charts created by the Interactive Chart Utility
• Adding an ICU chart to the current picture
• Displaying a chart on a clear screen
• Using GDFs with OPS
• Transforming GDFs
• Handling symbol sets with GDFs
• Displaying GDFs
• Recoloring primitives while loading GDFs
• Merging graphics segments while loading GDFs
• Displaying GDFs on a clear screen
• Saving the graphics field as a GDF
• Editing GDFs without the OPS source
• Starting GDFEDIT
• Working with GDFEDIT
• Displaying images
• Basic image display
• Scaling images
• Defining the position and size of images
• Controlling the color of images
• Creating dynamic sequences
• Inserting pauses in presentations
• Forcing the graphics field to the screen
• Creating animated sequences
• Displaying messages in dynamic sequences
• Sounding the alarm
• Examples of dynamic sequences
• Controlling the sequence of execution
• Flow control commands
• Using labels
• Tagging objects
• Getting tag values
• Reading the command field
• Using symbolic variables
• Defining and retrieving variables
• How values are interpreted and handled
• Interpreting numeric values
• Interpreting quoted strings
• Interpreting general phrases
• Concatenating variables
• Using system variables
• Status values
• Miscellaneous
• Coordinates
• Sharing variables with ISPF
• Querying variables
• Executing functions outside OPS
• Browsing files
• Editing files
• Executing functions
• Using the Interactive Chart Utility
• Using symbol editors
• Executing CMS commands
• Executing TSO commands
• Using ISPF functions
• Scrolling
• Using scroll commands
• Synchronizing the page number
• Sideways scrolling
• Setting and using labels
• Refreshing the page
• Searching the infile
• Searching an infile containing symbolic variables
• Automatic scrolling
• Printing and plotting
• Printing panels
• Creating PostScript output
• Plotting presentations
• Creating GL files
• Creating page segments (PSEGs)
• Controlling output under CMS
• Controlling output under TSO
• Page segment formats
• Converting colors into gray shades
• Previewing the result
• Automatic scaling of images
• Creating PSEGs with AUTO
• Using dialed terminals under CMS
• Establishing secondary terminals
• Defining a secondary terminal
• Dialling from a secondary terminal
• Issuing commands from a secondary terminal
• Copying the graphics field to a secondary terminal
• Getting help
• Using the OPS tutorial
• Displaying the OPS help file
• Finding your way round the help file
• Getting command syntax help
• Bypassing the help menu and command syntax help
• Displaying file lists
• Displaying the graphics overviews
• Querying the value of system variables

Appendix A. OPS startup procedures

• Starting OPS under TSO
• ADMOPSLx EXEC parameters under TSO
• Customizing the ADMOPSLx EXEC under TSO
• Essential customization
• Optional customization
• Starting OPS under CMS
• ADMOPSLx EXEC parameters under CMS
• ADMOPSLx EXEC return codes under CMS

Appendix B. Runtime customization

Appendix C. OPS sample presentation (ADM7OPXA ADMOPS)

Appendix D. Messages

• Message listing
• 000I
• 001S
• 002S
• 003S
• 004S
• 005S
• 008S
• 012E
• 013E
• 014E
• 015E
• 016E
• 017E
• 018E
• 019E
• 020E
• 021E
• 022E
• 030E
• 031E
• 035E
• 036E
• 040E
• 041E
• 042E
• 043E
• 044E
• 045E
• 046E
• 047E
• 048E
• 050E
• 052E
• 100E
• 101E
• 102W
• 110E
• 111E
• 112I
• 113W
• 114E
• 116E
• 118E
• 130E
• 134I
• 140E
• 142E
• 150E
• 152E
• 181E
• 182E
• 185E
• 186E
• 202E
• 205E
• 217E
• 232E
• 244E
• 250E
• 251E
• 280E
• 281E
• 282E
• 283E
• 301E
• 304E
• 305E
• 310E
• 313E
• 320E
• 321E
• 324E
• 350E
• 351E
• 352W
• 360E
• 361E
• 362E
• 363W
• 365E
• 390E
• 391E
• 400E
• 401E
• 406I
• 410I
• 420E
• 421E
• 422E
• 500E
• 502E
• 510W
• 511E
• 512I
• 513I
• 514E
• 515E
• 520I
• 999E

Glossary