Using Full-Screen CMS

There are many advantages to using full-screen CMS. When you set full-screen on, you can enter commands from almost anywhere on the physical screen. Your PF keys are referred to as CMSPF keys. Two of these can be used to scroll forward and backward through your CMS session to see commands you previously entered and CMS responses to these commands. To reenter any command, you do not need to retype the entire command. Instead, scroll back until the command is displayed on your screen, position your cursor on the command, type over any letter, and press Enter. The command will be re-run.

During your full-screen CMS session, messages and other output appear in windows on your physical screen and can be viewed without leaving your current work environment.

After you have logged on to the system, you can enter SET FULLSCREEN ON. Or, you can put this command in your PROFILE EXEC. Once you have entered this command, CMS is in a window and can take advantage of windowing support.

If you wish to leave full-screen CMS, just enter SET FULLSCREEN OFF. You can also enter SET FULLSCREEN SUSPEND or press the CMSPF 3 key to suspend full-screen CMS. The advantage to suspending full-screen CMS is that you can later enter SET FULLSCREEN RESUME and reenter your full-screen session where you left off. None of the default or user-defined settings for windows, virtual screens, or PF keys would be lost.

Now try some examples in full-screen CMS. Note that the examples and screens in this section are based on a physical screen size of 24 lines by 80 columns.

Enter SET FULLSCREEN ON from the command line. Your screen now looks like the example in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Full-Screen CMS

                                 1 
 Fullscreen CMS       2 
 Columns 1 - 79 of 81
 
  Ready;
  _
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
               3 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PF1=Help      2=Pop_Msg   3=Quit       4=Clear_Top  5=Filelist   6=Retrieve  4 
PF7=Backward  8=Forward   9=Rdrlist   10=Left      11=Right     12=Cmdline
====>  5 
15:15:08  6 
                   Enter a command or press a PF or PA key

Before you enter data, look at how your physical screen is organized.

1 Title Line: Identifies full-screen CMS. This is the CMS window. Other windows that have a title line are the MESSAGE, WARNING, and NETWORK windows.
2 Location Information: Shows the location of the window on the virtual screen. It appears in the upper right corner of the window when there may be additional virtual screen data to be displayed. For more information, see Location Information.
3 Data Area: Is the area of the window where CMS output is displayed. You can enter commands anywhere in this area, and you can scroll backward and forward through the displayed data.
4 PF Key Definition Area: Displays the CMSPF keys and their functions. Each function is described with a nine-character pseudonym that represents a command. You can change the function and pseudonym assigned to a key. For now, we will use the preassigned or default settings.
5 Command Line: Is the area of the window, in addition to the data area, where commands can be entered. This area is indicated by the large arrow.
6 Status Area: Reflects conditions or states that exist in your virtual machine. The next section gives a description of each section of the status area.