Priority and Color Assignments

Status descriptors are assigned both a priority number and a color. These color and priority assignments determine the colors in which status components are displayed. In SDF, a lower number indicates a higher priority. Status descriptors are connected to the status component in ascending order of priority.

Color and priority assignments for status descriptors are defined in two places:

• in the PRIORITY parameter in the AOFINIT member of the NetView DSIPARM data set. This parameter defines initial priority and color assignments used for status descriptors. The values defined in AOFINIT are used if no further customization is done to priority and color assignments. The default priority ranges and colors used in AOFINIT are:

White is used as the default status descriptor color (the DCOLOR parameter in member AOFINIT, described in IBM System Automation for z/OS Programmer's Reference) and as the default color for a status component without a tree structure entry (the ERRCOLOR parameter in member AOFINIT, described in IBM System Automation for z/OS Programmer's Reference). For more information on the PRIORITY parameter, see IBM System Automation for z/OS Programmer's Reference.

• in the SDF definitions in the Status Details policy object. These entries define colors, highlighting, and priorities used for particular resource statuses. Color and priority assignments defined in the customization dialog can be used to override assignments in the AOFINIT member.
  Note: Some of the resource statuses that appear in SDF displays do not directly correspond to resource statuses used in the automation status file.
  IBM System Automation for z/OS Programmer's Reference shows the default resource status types, colors, highlighting, and priorities provided with SA z/OS. These settings define to SA z/OS the parameters used when adding status descriptors to SDF.

  For more information on the SDF Status Details definition, see Step 4: (Optional) Defining SDF in the Customization Dialog.