Working with screens

You can save multiple windows as one screen under a single name. You can save screens in your own screen data set, or in a site data set to be shared by everyone.

Screens are useful when you frequently display the same combination of views, and always in the same windows. For example, you might want to save a screen of windows that show the performance of three different systems.

Note

If you are looking at multiple views and request a screen, all of the open windows containing your views are closed.

Creating screens

Use the following procedure to create and save screens with multiple windows.

Allocate a standard partitioned data set for your screen definitions called userid.BBSDEF, where userid is your TSO user ID.Your personal screen definition is displayed instead of a site-wide screen definition by the same name. If you want to contribute to the site library, contact your system administrator.
Open multiple windows displaying the views that you want to save.
On the COMMAND line, type SAVESCR and press Enter.
In the Save Screen Definition dialog, type a name for your screen in the Name field.
(optional) In the Description field, type a description of the screen.
In the Replace field, specify Y to overwrite a screen definition of the same name.
Enter END to save the screen definition.
Note
If you create a screen definition on a large display monitor and then try to display that screen on a smaller monitor, you receive an error message. However, screens that you create on a smaller monitor always expand to fill the area afforded by a larger monitor.

Displaying screens

Use the following procedure to redisplay previously created screens.

Perform one of the following actions:

Enter SCReen name, where name is the name that you specified in the Save Screen Definition dialog.
Use the SCREENS view to list all of the screen definitions that have been saved for your user session, plus those shared by your site.
Each BMC AMI Ops product contains a SCREENS view. If all of your BMC AMI Ops products are installed on the same system, their screen definitions appear in one SCREENS view. You can see what screens your site has by entering the SCREENS command on the COMMAND line.
These screen definitions contain specific views that reflect the current time and contain refreshable data. They give you ideas for creating your own screen definitions and provide a starting point from which you can begin using hyperlinks to explore system performance.

Setting an initial screen

When you start a BMC AMI Ops product, use the following procedure to display a screen with a set of views that are customized to your site's needs.

To set an initial screen

Create the screen that you want.
On the COMMAND line, type MVParms and press Enter.
From the BMC AMI Ops Parameter Editors menu, select the DISPLAY option.The Information Display Parameters dialog is displayed.
In the Initial screen field, type the name of your screen.You can specify only screen names. If you want to use a single view for your initial screen, save it as a screen.
Note
This initial screen is used when you access any BMC AMI Ops product. If you use a screen that you created with views from one product and then access a different product initially, you will still get the initial screen that you created.