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Title:	DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:	Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:	TAEC::BEROUD

Created:	Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	6497
Total number of notes:	27359

1407.0. "Rule description for Iconic Map alarm display" by KAOT01::S_HYNDMAN () Tue Aug 27 1991 19:44

    
    DECMCC BMS V1.1
    
    	Is it possible to get the description field displayed on the
    iconic map alarm display?  The mail notification command procedure
    includes this information from my rule but the iconic map notification
    does not.
    
    	This is would be usefull to me as our operators can receive
    additional information from this field.  I would like to simplify
    their tasks by eliminating the need for reading mail.
    
    	If this is a limitation, has anyone created a work around?
    
    
    Scott
    
    p.s.  I have just started a major enterprise management project
          using DECMCC and have found this notesfile to be a great help.
          Keep up the good work!

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1407.1	what you see is what we get...	TOOK::CALLANDER	Jill Callander DTN 226-5316	`Wed Sep 04 1991 10:24`	15
	Sorry, in V1.1 the alarms FM is not passing all of that information back to the presentation modules, and that is why you are not recieving it. What you could do is bring up an FCL in another window, then do a use mode forms to get it into forms mode (this will give you a 500 line scrollable buffer). Then modify you alarms action procedure so that it broadcasts the description to your users terminal. The FCL traps broadcast messages an displays them in the output scroll region. Now the manager will have a color change on the map and the textual information in thw next window. Some of the benefits are that the FCL info will be chronologically ordered, and can be printed or saved to a file for further examination. In V1.2 we are working to make this all part of the new notification presentation functions that will come with the map. jill
1407.2	Related behaviors	CSC32::T_MILTON	Ted Milton	`Mon Sep 23 1991 12:52`	16
	I have also noticed that it is not possible to create an alarm rule in the ICONIC map with a long description field. This works fine from the FCL. It seems like there is an inconsistency between the two PMs in the maximum field lengths allowed. What are the maximum sizes for the fields when creating an alarm and why the inconsistencies? The only length description I can find in the documentation is for the the alarm rule name. Is the maximum field length for the other fields going to be documented in V1.2? Thanks, Ted Milton
1407.3		TOOK::HAO		`Mon Sep 23 1991 13:19`	5
	Have you tried pressing on MB2 while over the Description text field? I believe selecting 'Expand Field' will give you more room to add text. Christine
1407.4	Limit is Batch parameter length	NSSG::R_SPENCE	Nets don't fail me now...	`Mon Sep 23 1991 16:48`	7
	The only limit I know of for the Description length is the length for a string to be passed to Batch as a parameter. If you are using proceedures from your alarm rules then the description should be less than the parameter size restriction (and I forgto what that was... 128?) s/rob