User Interface

The MAINVIEW Data Server has a graphical user interface allowing the customer to monitor its operation and to configure the choice of fields to be saved.

The Main Window

When it is launched the MAINVIEW Data Server will have a small window that can be placed anywhere on the users desktop and that will remember its location and size. It will incidentally be useful as a digital clock. The window looks like this when it first comes up:

Main Window with a pink background

The pink background color indicates that no host connections have been made. Each host is defined to the program has having trusted or login access. If the access is trusted, the IP address of this desktop is defined as a trusted address associated with a specific user ID. The host server will automatically log the MAINVIEW Data Server on. If the host is defined as login, the user will need to supply an MVS user ID and password.

As the connections to the host are made, the background color changes first to yellow (indicating that some connections are up and some are down) and finally to green once all the connections are correct::

Main window with yellow background

 

Main window with green background

The user can switch the time display between local time and UTC (GMT) by use of the radio buttons in the main window. The bar at the bottom of the main window is an activity monitor which shows colored bars for outstanding requests to a host.

If the color switches from green to yellow or red during operation, it indicates that one of the defined host systems is failing. You can determine which one, by displaying the host status, using the View→Status menu command. The messages generated by the host can be read in the log display, and the host definition can be changed using Setup.

Menus

The main window has a menu bar with the following menu choices:

File

Import - Read in a file generated by export and start using the requests it contains,

Export - Create a file containing one or more schedules and all of the requests using them.

Clear passwords - Remove any saved host passwords from the configuration. The next time that the host connections are made, the password will have to be reentered.

Exit - Terminate the MAINVIEW Data Server. When the Data Server is restarted, it will attempt to record all of the intervals that were missed while it was down.

View

Log - Display the current log of messages from MAINVIEW Data Server.

Requests - Display the set of defined recording requests.

Setup - Open the Setup dialog for MAINVIEW Data Server.

Status - Display the currently defined host servers and their status.

Window

Appearance - Alter the graphical presentation of the interface to one supported by the Java Virtual Machine. This setting is retained from session to session.

Help

Help Topics - Open the Help window showing the Table of Contents in the navigation pane.

Help Index - Open the Help window showing the Index in the navigation pane.

Support - Open the SourceForge page for BMC MAINVIEW Data Server.

About - Show the version information for the MAINVIEW Data Server.