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Customizing Panels

Customize panels by:

  1. Viewing the panel that you want to change
  2. Adding the changes by typing over the existing information

CA Dataquery stores all menus, messages, and Help panels in the DQP table.

Background

You perform the various panel maintenance functions by selecting the panel maintenance option on the LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE MENU.

Each menu, message and Help panel has a unique name. Message names precede the actual message. Menu and Help panel names are located in the upper-right corner of each panel.

After you select the panel maintenance option on the Language Maintenance Menu, CA Dataquery displays the DIRECTORY OF PANELS. The DIRECTORY OF PANELS provides a list of all panel names. You locate the panel you wish to customize by paging through the directory. Included in this directory are error messages and informational messages.

CA Dataquery sometimes uses the same PF key definitions in several panels. You can see what panels share PF key definitions by looking at the PF key Legend column on the DIRECTORY OF PANELS. For example, the PF key Panel, YA1, is used by several panels. When you customize the PF keys in a panel that uses YA1, all panels that use YA1 reflect this customization.

Before you can use a customized panel you must update your User Profile. Remember to change your User Profile to specify the customization you want to use. For more information on changing the user profile, see Defining or Modying the user Profile.