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Moving Through Screens and Menus

Certain directory manager commands bring up screens in which you fill in fields or menus from which you select other options. For both directory managers and system administrators, the following commands bring up screens or menus:

System administrators have the following additional commands that bring up screens or menus:

All of these commands require that you enter your logon password before you can use them. CA VM:Director prompts you for your password after you enter the command and before the product displays its menus or entry screens. The logon password is required as another level of access control; it helps ensure that unauthorized people cannot use management commands if they gain access to your terminal.

To use these commands without entering your logon password, you must have NOPASS authorization in the AUTHORIZ CONFIG file. If you are not a system administrator but your terminal emulator is in a secure area where there is little chance of other people accessing it inappropriately, you can ask your system administrator for this authorization.

Note: For information about the NOPASS authorization, see Waiving Password Requirements for Commands. For more information about these commands and how they work, see the Reference Guide.

While using CA VM:Director full-screen functions, you can always use any of the following function keys:

Tab forward

Moves the cursor to the beginning of the next data entry field

Tab backward

Moves the cursor to the beginning of the current field

If the cursor is at the beginning of a field, it moves the cursor to the beginning of the previous field.

ENTER

Sends data from the screen to CA VM:Director.

If changes are valid, CA VM:Director performs the update. If the data is incomplete or in error, CA VM:Director places the cursor at the missing or incorrect field. If you press this key but have not changed anything, the menu redisplays.

PA1 (Cancel)

Cancels the session

CA VM:Director discards all the changes made on the current screen, and save any changes made on previous screens that affect minidisks. Minidisk changes cannot be canceled with PA1.

PA2

Changes the display mode for passwords on screens that contain a password field to let you see or hide the current password

Note: You lose any data you have typed but not entered when you press PA2.

If your site does not display passwords, the PA2 key is invalid; pressing it does not cause data you have typed but not entered to be lost.

CLEAR

Refreshes the screen to its initial values.

PF1 (Help)

Displays HELP information for the current screen

PF3 (Quit)

Quits the current session without saving any of your changes

PF10 (Print)

Prints the current screen, except for passwords, and performs an ENTER

PF12 (End)

Ends the CA VM:Director session after completing any changes requested from the current screen

Help with Screens and Menus

You can get information about any currently displayed menu or screen by pressing PF1 (Help). This program function key displays a help screen that describes what you can do from the menu or screen.

When you are finished reading the help screen, press PF3 (End) to return to the original screen.