User Modes: Initiating Output Retrieval › Panels

Panels

Beginning with Release 11, CA View is able to have 32-character report identifiers. The panels displaying the long report IDs will display fewer columns on the Sysout Selection List.

Long and Short Panels

A feature was added to allow the use of the traditional CA View 2.0 Panels.

• The traditional 2.0 panels are referred to as Short Panels.
• The default panels with the 32-character report ids are referred to as Long Panels.

Long and short panels can be used globally or on a user-by-user basis. The global setting can be used by setting the LANGUAGE=Initialization Parameter. The default setting for this parameter is 'R' (English). Changing the language modifier to 'RS' will globally set the short panels as default for all users.

Each User Profile has a language parameter 'DEF USER LANGUAGE='. The default language is based on the Initialization Parameter but each user can override that specification with the Define User LANGUAGE parameter. If the default language was RS, a specific user can be defined with LANGUAGE=R so all users would default to the Short Panels, but one specific user would have the Long Panels.

Note: The HELP PANEL command always shows the Long Panel Name. Short Panels are implemented as a 'Language Modifier' and the Help Sub‑system cannot see that setting and always displays the Long Panel name even when a short panel is being displayed.

There are two basic sets of Long and Short Panels. One set is used for the Main Menu and the second set is used for the Sysout Selection List.

The panels used for the Sysout Selection list are easily determined to be Short or Long by the number of columns reserved for the Report Id column. The Main Menu panels are not easily determined by viewing, however entering data in the Report Id field determines if the panel displayed is a short or long panel.

• If you can enter more than 12 characters, it's a long panel.
• if you can only enter 12 characters, it's a short panel.

So, if you were on the Main Menu and entered the HELP PANEL command, which showed the panel as SARP1 but was only able to enter a 12-character report id, then the real panel name is SARS1 (See the charts below).