Frank,
I've been using the OVwRegDir variable for long and successfully. Hereby, you
ensure that your operators will have only those menus/applications they really
need. More on this in chapter 4 of the NetView Administrator's Guide.
HTH,
Best regards,
Vladimir.
"Frank W. Hansen" wrote:
> James,
>
> could you not setup the "OvRegDir" environment variable and force the
> location of registration files?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Frank W. Hansen
> Tivoli Certified Enterprise Consultant
> www.EnterpriseInnovations.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
> [mailto:NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU]On Behalf Of James Shanks
> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 7:55 AM
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: Where are all the registration files fo rthe menu bar ?
>
> NetView treats everything in /usr/OV/registration/C as a registration file.
> And
> that is the only place he looks. Of course, if you have one of the older NLS
> versions, then for Ja_JP, your registration files would be in
> /usr/OV/registration/Ja_JP.
>
> The file names in this directory are not important, because NetView
> processes
> them all, so one thing to watch out for is that you cannot make a copy of an
> existing registration file, re-name it, and keep it as a backup in this same
> directory structure. NetView will still process it, and the results are
> unpredictable if you have two nearly identical files defining the same
> structure. What happens depends upon which one he reads last (I think).
> That
> is why there is a backup registration directory which mirrors
> /usr/OV/registration. Registration files are discussed in the Programmer's
> Guide.
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX and NT) L3 Support
>
> Bob Stamm <Robert_Stamm@RES.RAYTHEON.COM> on 03/03/2000 05:53:49 PM
>
> Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
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> Subject: Re: Where are all the registration files fo rthe menu bar ?
>
> Everyting I write a new registration file I place it into the location
> you've specified below.
>
> "Yang, Peter" <peter.yang@LMCO.COM> on 03/03/2000 04:22:44 PM
>
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> Subject: Where are all the registration files fo rthe menu bar ?
>
> Hello to All,
>
> I am trying to find out where are all the "action" or "f.action" of the
> Netview application registration files for the Netview's menu bar. e.g
> Locate >> Objects >> By Symbol Type can be an action item in the
> application registration file.
>
> Are they all organized under /Usr/OV/registration/C/<***> ? or they are
> organized at other directories ?
>
> I think I have figured out a way to log all the operator menu
> selections
> or events to a file.( I have not coded it yet). My idea is to write a
> Netview application program to use the OwAddActionCallback() API call to
> follow the example under /usrs/OV/prg_samples/ovw_examples/<**>.
>
> Thanks for all the info help from the Netview community.
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