CMS Command Dialog Options

A variety of options are associated with each CMS command. Many of these options are common to several CMS command dialogs.

Previous and Next
Use Previous to recall previously set default values, if any, and their associated remarks. Use Next to scroll back to the present.

Set As Default and Get Default Values
Use Set as Default to save the configuration of a CMS command. Next time you use the command, the dialog will contain the same settings. If you change values and want to restore them, use Get Default Values.

Remark
Any comment you wish to associate with the CMS operation for the selected file or files.

CMS generation (optional)
When reserving a file, you can specify the generation that you want to work with. The default checkout is the most recent generation of the main line. When replacing a file, the default is to check in the generation version that you last checked out. You can specify a variant generation if you wish. (You must specify a variant generation when an earlier generation was checked out.) When you fetch a file, you can specify the generation you want to get instead of accepting the default of getting the latest main-line version.

Variant generations
CMS allows for generations that belong to variant branches off the main line of descent. These variant generations are identified by using a letter (or a string if you selected long variant name support >).For example, the first variant of the second generation of a file could be designated as 2A1.
For more information,  Guide to CMS for OpenVMS (6.1.1) at http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73FINAL/5822/5822_.htm

Prompt for Input on Each Successive File
This option is available when a CMS command is applied to more than one file (which includes selection of a single form node). This is useful if you want to apply different comments or other options to several project files. If you want to add multiple files that are represented by the same node in the Explorer, and the node represents a mix of binary and textual files, you can set the options individually for each file.