Screen control

This section describes OMEGAMON AI for CICS screen control functions.

Scrolling

The default scrolling keys are PF7/PF19 and PF8/PF20 (on terminals with 24 programmed function keys). They are set to /UP and /DOWN (alias /U and /D), and scroll one physical screen at a time. You can change the default scroll amount with the OPTN command.

You can also scroll by using the /UP and /DOWN INFO-line commands. The /UP and /DOWN commands accept the following arguments:

nnn: Scrolls nnn lines (nnn can be any number from 1—999).

PAGE: Scrolls a physical screen at a time.

MAX: Scrolls up or down the number of LROWS defined for your terminal; the short form of MAX is M.

CSR: Scrolls according to the current location of your cursor. If your cursor is on the INFO-line, the scroll amount is one page.

As an alternative to /UP and /DOWN, you can use the INFO-line command /TOP to scroll to the top of the logical screen and /BOTTOM to scroll to the bottom of the logical screen.

You can also type any of the /UP and /DOWN arguments (such as nnn, MAX, or CSR) on the INFO-line before you press the PF key to change the scroll amount. If, for example, you type MAX on the INFO-line and then press PF20, OMEGAMON® scrolls the maximum number of lines.

Clearing the screen

If a menu, screen space, or any commands display on your screen, and you want to clear the screen, use the clear screen immediate command. The clear screen command consists of two periods followed by two blanks. Enter ..bb in the input area of any line below the INFO-line to clear the screen below it.

Deleting comment lines

To insert blank lines into a screen, use the following immediate command:

.I nn

The variable nn indicates the number of lines to insert. The default setting is 1. Note that the nn argument must begin in column 6. OMEGAMON AI for CICS inserts the new lines before the line where you type the insert command. Therefore, all other lines currently on the screen below the inserted line shift downward. When the command executes, the line you typed over with the insert command restores to its original data.

To delete lines from a screen space, use the .D nn immediate command, which works the same way as .I nn. When you do not specify the nn variable, it defaults to 1 deletion line.

You can also delete a block of data from the physical screen. To do this, enter .DD on the first and last lines of the block.

Displaying continuation lines of command output

If your screen is cluttered with lines of comment text, and you want to clear the comments but retain other command text, you can use the /DCL INFO-line command or the .DCL immediate command. The /DCL command clears all comment lines on the logical screen, while the .DCL immediate command clears all comment lines below its entry line.

Inserting and deleting lines

Some major commands select a series of items. Often, the display output does not fit onto one line. When this is the case, the major command displays only the first line of output, and a plus sign appears at the right of the line to indicate that more data is available.

If you want to see a count of the number of items that a major command will select, enter a pound sign (#) in column 1 before the command. The following example shows that there are 20 online disks for the DISK command to display:

#DISK 20

Continuing major command output

You can use a number of different continuation characters and commands to control the output display. Use these steps to control the output display:

Enter a less-than sign (<) in column 1 in front of a major command to generate all the output at once when it executes.
After you issue a major command for the first time, you can put a number in column 1 to specify how many lines of the display to skip.
You can repeat a major command to display only the next line of output.

Continuing major and minor command output

When a major command lists a series of items that continues for more than one line, any minor command you enter after the major command applies only to the last line of output. Therefore, if you enter a minor command after the third line of major command output, that minor command only generates information about the third line of items listed by the major. Normally, the major and minor commands must be repeated once for each line of available output.

The .RC command is a shortcut to this process. The .RC command automatically repeats the major and the minor until all available lines of data are displayed. Enter the major command once, followed by the minor commands, and then the .RC command below the minor.

Delaying automatic updating

The delay and hold features temporarily defer updating when you are in dedicated or VTAM® mode with automatic updating in effect (see the .AUP command).

Delay feature: While OMEGAMON AI for CICS is automatically updating, you can continue to enter commands. If OMEGAMON AI for CICS detects a cursor movement since the last update, it defers processing to avoid executing half-entered input. The words I/O Delay appear on the INFO-line, and the screen is not updated for the number of cycles specified with the IODELAY keyword of the .SET command.
Hold feature: If your screen display contains data that you want to study for longer than the normal automatic update interval, you can use the hold feature to temporarily freeze the screen image. To do so, home the cursor, then move it back one space to the blank space in column 1 of the INFO-line. The words Hold Mode appear on the INFO-line, and the information on the screen does not change until you move the cursor away from row 1, column 1.