Using the Motif Interface › Overview

Overview

This chapter describes how to use Job Management Manager (the manager) with the Motif interface. This interface allows you to use the mouse to click general user commands from menus and dialog boxes; the manager’s management commands are not available in the Motif interface.

Before you begin using the Motif interface, you must be familiar with the basic DECwindows concepts described in the Using DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS Guide.

The first part of this chapter gives you an overview of the Motif interface:

• Using mouse buttons
• Using menus and buttons
• Starting the manager with the Motif interface
• Job Management Manager windows and symbols

The second part of the chapter describes how to perform major tasks in the manager:

• Loading jobs to display
• Clearing and changing the currently displayed jobs
• Adding to the currently displayed jobs
• Locating jobs by scrolling
• Viewing job information
• Creating a job
• Creating a job dependency
• Deleting a job dependency
• Controlling a job: aborting, holding, running, and releasing
• Editing a job
• Deleting a job
• Sorting jobs in the Linear Display window
• Creating a graphics file of your display
• Using navigation windows
• Special day classes
• Load Balance Groups
• Exiting from the Motif interface

The Motif interface uses a resource file to obtain values for several items. The resource file, named SCHEDULER$MOTIF.DAT, must reside in the DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS or DECW$USER_DEFAULTS area.

During the installation, the following resource files are placed in the NSCHED$ directory:

• SCHEDULER$MOTIF_COLOR.DAT — Sample resource file for color systems
• SCHEDULER$MOTIF_BW.DAT — Sample resource file for monochrome (single-plane) systems

Users on monochrome or gray-scale systems MUST copy the file NSCHED$:SCHEDULER$MOTIF_BW.DAT file to their DECW$USER_DEFAULTS directory, and name it SCHEDULER$MOTIF.DAT. Unless copying DAT file is done, some aspects of the interface cannot display properly. Because the color version of the resource file is placed in the DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS directory under the name SCHEDULER$MOTIF.DAT, users on color systems do not need to copy it to their DECW$USER_DEFAULTS directory unless they want to modify the default resource values.

Note: For DECwindows Motif, if you set your monitor to a resolution less than 1024 x 864, you can have to reduce font size to prevent clipping.

The DECW$USER_DEFAULTS area is defined to be SYS$LOGIN by default. Copying NSCHED$:SCHEDULER$MOTIF_COLOR.DAT to DECW$USER_DEFAULTS and naming it SCHEDULER$MOTIF.DAT allows you to change the resource file to meet your preferences without affecting the operation of the interface for other users.

The manager uses the Motif user interface. Old resource files (SCHEDULER$XUI*.DAT) are not used. To prevent those files from interfering with new Motif files, remove those files from the NSCHED$ directory, from DECW$USER_DEFAULTS, and from DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS. Also issue the following command and delete those executables to prevent them from interfering:

DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS