Compaq ACMS for OpenVMS
Writing Applications

Figures
1-1	Creation of Definition Database Files
1-2	The Review Menu
2-1	Structure of a Task Definition
2-2	The Workspace Used to Pass Information
2-3	Retrieving Messages
4-1	A Selection Menu
8-1	Block Step Structure
9-1	Queuing, Dequeuing, and Processing Tasks
9-2	A Queuing Example
9-3	List of Workspaces Passed by ACMS$DEQUEUE_TASK
9-4	List of Workspaces Passed by ACMS$QUEUE_TASK Service
10-1	A Task Group and Its Tasks
12-1	The ACMS Menu Structure
12-2	Personnel Menu
12-3	The Review Menu
12-4	ACMS Menu Choices
14-1	Request Interface Run-Time Components
14-2	Request Interface Model
14-3	User-Written Shareable Image File
14-4	Pseudocode for an RI Agent Using an FMS Menu Interface
18-1	AVERTZ Rental Menu
D-1	Creating a New File with LSE
D-2	Expanding a Placeholder
D-3	Expanding the REPLACE TASK |CREATE TASK Placeholder
D-4	Choosing REPLACE_TASK
D-5	Expanded Comment Placeholders
D-6	Expanding Tokens
D-7	Final Source File Created with LSE
D-8	Examining Diagnostic Files with LSE REVIEW
F-1	Form Editor Menu
Tables
1-1	Startup Qualifiers and Their Functions
1-2	Ways to Exit from ADU
1-3	Establishing Protection for ACMS Dictionary Entities
1-4	ADU Commands for ADUINI.COM File
2-1	Data Entry Task
2-2	Field and Values Tested by Conditional Clauses
2-3	Inquiry Task
2-4	Update Task
3-1	DECforms and TDMS Terminology
4-1	Summary of ACMS Workspaces
6-1	Task Failures
8-1	Step Exceptions
8-2	Transaction Exceptions
8-3	Nonrecoverable Exceptions
9-1	ACMSGEN Parameters Associated with QTI
9-2	Errors That Result in Queued Task Retry
9-3	Errors That Result in Writing Queued Task Elements to an Error Queue
9-4	Errors That Result in Immediate Retry of Queued Task
9-5	Procedure Parameter Notation
14-1	Logical Names Used by the Request Interface
14-2	Routines Used by the Request Interface
14-3	Menu Interfaces Used by the Request Interface
16-1	Environments
16-2	ADU Clauses in Which You Can Specify a Logical Name
17-1	Using Existing ACMS Databases on OpenVMS Alpha
18-1	Processing Step I/O Options and Restrictions on OpenVMS VAX
18-2	Exchange Step I/O Options on OpenVMS VAX
18-3	Processing Step I/O Options and Restrictions on OpenVMS Alpha
18-4	Exchange Step I/O Options and Restrictions on OpenVMS Alpha
18-5	ACMS Menu Commands
18-6	ACMS Function Keys
B-1	Definitions Copied to the CDD
C-1	CDD Protocols for ACMS Entity and Relationship Objects
D-1	LSE REVIEW Window Commands
E-1	Request Interface Kit Components
F-1	Defining the Named Data Associated with the Form