Writer instructions

Purpose

Use this page to display a banner announcement on each page of the space. Create the Space announcements page in the master space, outside of the Home branch.

You can version the Space announcements page to enable different banners to be published into different target spaces, however, the banner that is displayed in the versioned (master) space itself only displays the most recently-published banner.  If you find errors in the banner area of your versioned space and you are sure the Space announcements page is set up correctly, try publishing the page to the same space.

For more information, see Space-announcements-banners.

Removing

When an announcement is no longer needed, remove the BMC Space Banner macro.

Translation

Localized spaces using the L10n Viewport theme must change the name of this page to Space announcements l10n.  See Configuring-the-Scroll-ViewPort-theme-for-translated-spaces.

Usage

Choose one or none of the following BMC Space Banner macros.

If your space requires another kind of announcement, you can use this page in coordination with your team lead and editors.

When should I use a space announcement banner?

Use the space organization announcement after you change the content from a book-like organization (such as User Manual, Configuration Manual, and Administration Guide) to the product model.

Use the latest version announcement to push traffic to later versions. You do not need to add this to every previous version, but if you have a specific reason that you want users to be aware—for example, Google searches show content for an obsolete version—use the banner to help users find a relevant version.

When an announcement is no longer needed, remove the BMC Space Banner macro.

Space announcement This documentation space provides the same content as before, but the organization of the content has changed. The content is now organized based on logical branches instead of legacy book titles. We hope that the new structure will help you quickly find the content that you need.

Disguise criteria file

The Disguise Criteria File (data set) contains disguise criteria information created using BMC Compuware File-AID/Data Solutions. Optionally, you can add selection criteria information to your disguise criteria member. Disguise criteria and XREF members can be stored in the same file.

This file can be created with Option 5- Criteria in the Data Privacy Menu.

Warning

Disguise criteria files for related extracts should be maintained only through the bridge to BMC Compuware File-AID/Data Solutions using Option 5 Data Privacy. Editing a disguise criteria file with ISPF causes the file to be unusable by BMC Compuware File-AID/Data Solutions.

The disguise Criteria file has the following characteristics:

File organization

Partitioned (DSORG=PO)

Record format

Variable-blocked (RECFM=VB)

Logical record length

300 (LRECL=300)

Minimum block size

304 (BLKSIZE=304)

For more information, see Data Privacy about how File-AID/RDX uses this file.

 

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