TheView has a comprehensive offering of software tools to view and manage files, processes, Guardian  subsystems, a Guardian program execution window and a powerful GUI editor.

TheView's customizable interface favors hot key users, toolbar icon users, small laptop displays up to dual and quad monitor configurations. All tool windows have toolbars that can be hidden, detached, individual icons displayed or hidden or create new toolbars. Icons are available in three sizes: 16 x 16, 24 x 24 and 32 x 32. Workspace skins have been implemented allowing each user to define a totally different look and feel of the user interface. This is the most advanced visual interface available today!

TheView has implemented Workspaces which allow open tool windows to be organized by software projects, support tickets, or by Guardian UserIds. Tool windows are opened in the currently active workspace. Selecting a different workspace will 'hide' the current tool windows and then 'show' previously opened tool windows in the selected workspace. For users that have multiple UserIds, Guardian UserId Workspaces creates a workspace for each Guardian UserId configured.

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TheView Product Brief (Adobe Acrobat PDF format)

Key Benefits

• A common interface for: system managers, programmers, analysts, database administrators, managers and end users. Configure for each UserId or UserId Groups which tools and server resources that can be viewed and managed.
  
• Users are no longer restricted to viewing system resources in a 24 line by 80 character wide window. Imagine viewing a spoolfile or edit file in a 132 character wide unlimited scrollable window. Even the program execution window allows up to 256 characters per line. Using a 17" monitor, TheView will more than double the amount of information that can be viewed at one time.
  
• TheView integrates the PC, Guardian, and OSS operating and file systems providing one single powerful interface. For example, print edit or spoolfiles on a local PC printer, Email the contents of many windows, download spoolfiles directly to Microsoft Word or Excel, and save edit files to the Guardian File System (edit, unstructured, or C Data), OSS text file, or PC txt files.
   
• New users to the NonStop server will 'come up to speed' in days instead of weeks. Experienced users will become much more productive using the advanced features of TheView.

• Compatible on D48.03 and all later releases
• Available on K-Series, S-Series, Itanium and Blade platforms
• Compatible on Windows 2000 and later releases

• PC - 90MB of disk space and 100MB of memory
• NonStop Server - 100MB of disk space

• Double-click support for Guardian file system: edit, unstructured ASCII, entry sequenced, key sequenced, relative, archived spoolfiles, C-Data, and program files.
• Double-click support for OSS text files.
• Drag and drop Disks (SUPER.SUPER only), Subvols, OSS directories and files across servers.
• Easily show the number of files in a subvol and the size in mega bytes.
• Create a File Tool desktop icon saving the displayed directory.

FTP Tool: Drag and drop one or multiple files between PC and NonStop, UNIX, DOS and Linux servers. The connection and logon are automatically performed. Enscribe structured and large files are supported.

Logical View: A directory of files that comprise a software project can be displayed in a Logical View window. First a directory is created with directory items for specific categories of file types (e.g. Source, Listings, Programs, Documentation). Files are then added under the appropriate directory item. Double-click is supported to retrieve edit and archived spoolfiles and execute programs. Logical View's can be shared by multiple programmers.

MyProcesses Tool: Displays only a users processes. A selected process can easily be stopped, suspended, activated, or its priority altered.

Network Tool: Shows the status of all systems in your network and optionally display a bar chart of the CPU utilization.

Peruse Tool: Provides viewing, management, and archiving spoolfiles.

• Multiple spoolfiles (up to 200) can be retrieved directly to Microsoft Word or Excel, an email window, editor window, or a Document window. When retrieving a spoolfile, the starting and ending page number can be specified.
• A print preview window displays spoolfiles which can be printed on a PC or LAN connected printer (page breaks are supported).
• The Document window has a powerful search feature through the use of bookmarks.
• Easily archive one or multiple spoolfiles to disk in 129 or edit file format.
• Open spoolfiles in the default Document window or an Editor window.

• Spooler: Reports the status of a Spooler subsystem showing the current capacities and limits of the Spooler, Collectors including which processes have the Collector opened (shows Job Number, process name, CPU and pin, and program name), Print Processes and printers.
• SCF: Display the status of subsystems managed by SCF. Easily display hardware and software processes. Selecting a process displays the available commands as buttons. Press a command button and the result will be displayed in a scrollable window.

• 256 character wide unlimited scrollable window (note: not all subsystems support this width).
• Visual previous command history allows re-execution of commands, shows duration of command, and easily reposition to where the command executed.
• Create favorite command files storing groups of commands for easy re-execution.
• Visual queue showing type ahead commands, modify, cut and paste commands into the queue, pause and start execution of commands.
• Create Execution Window desktop icons saving configuration settings and easy access to the subsystem.
• Optionally store commands executed day to day.
• Powerful search facility allowing text to be searched and creates a 'link' for each occurrence. A search can also be configured to search the text as a commands output is received from the server.

Copy To: The standard 'copy to' destination for the tool windows is the Print Preview, Excel, Word, GUI Editor and the email window. Most of the tool windows allow part or all of the data copied to one of these 5 destinations.

GUI Editor: Retrieve and edit PC, Guardian and OSS edit files.

• Color syntax highlighting (also prints in color) for 21 different languages (e.g. COBOL, ENFORM, TACL, pTal).
• Over 170 configurable edit commands. Favorite hot keys can be configured.
• Support for column delete, copy and paste.
• Create 4 panes per Edit window.
• Code completion for Guardian Procedure calls have been implemented for pTal.
• Using the Search pane, all open edit files in a workspace can be searched and text can also be replaced.

Workspaces: Allows open tool windows to be organized by software projects, support tickets, or by Guardian UserIds. Tool windows are opened in the currently active workspace. Selecting a different workspace will 'hide' the current tool windows and then 'show' the previously opened tool windows in the selected workspace. For users that have multiple UserIds, Guardian UserId Workspaces creates a workspace for each Guardian UserId configured.

Performance: TheView is 80% faster than traditional terminal emulators, which translates to less system overhead. Valuable system resource usage is also reduced. For instance, a terminal emulator must use a TACL in order to execute FUP (TACLs are expensive). Another example is editing a file, TheView decreased CPU busy time by 75%, required 60% less memory pages, and reduced disk busy time by 60%. The comparison performed used TEDIT opening an edit file and paging down 10 pages making one edit line change.

Encryption: TheView implemented Blowfish encryption enabling 448 bit key length and sixteen rounds of data encryption providing an extremely secure communication between the client and server. The only tools in which data is not encrypted are the CAIL Tool, FTP Tool, and Telnet Tool.