What You See in the Explorer

Once you mount a CMS Filesystem in NetBeans, a CMS Filesystem node appears (with UNIX-style syntax showing the directory specification of the mount point) in the Explorer.

When you click to expand the CMS Filesystem node, the Explorer shows all files that exist under the filesystem's relative mount point. That means all preexisting files within the OpenVMS directory structure under the mount point plus any preexisting files in the specified CMS library.

Note Illustrations in these Help topics are based on the files in the sampledir directory (which is the relative mount point in these examples). This directory contains NetBeans code examples (and is mounted and displayed in the standard Explorer Filesystem by default).

Initial status of files

The initial status of all files can be one of three states:

It's important to understand what Locally Added and No Local Copy mean. Other files statuses are discussed in Using the CMS Filesystem.

Locally Added
Under the CMS mount point, all directories appear with a [Local] caption, and initially local-only files appear with the add badge and the [Locally Added] caption. Locally Added means the files are in the Explorer [Filesystems] under the CMS mount point - that is, they were added locally, either before or after mounting CMS version control - but they are not in the CMS library.

You can add these local files (binary and source) to the CMS library.

No Local Copy
Files in the library that do not exist locally in the mounted directory tree are displayed with the status No Local Copy and the icon for an unknown file type. These are file placeholders - you need to reserve (and retrieve) or fetch such a file in order for it to be physically present on the filesystem and available to work with. If a .java file has a package statement, the placeholder appears in the location of the package statement. Otherwise, the location is under the filesystem's root. >

CMS System Directory

Every mounted CMS filesystem has an internal CMS directory in its root. This folder is visible as an OpenVMS directory, but is hidden in the CMS Filesystem. It contains temporary and library files used by the CMS module and should be ignored. Never try to reserve or fetch files from this folder. Modifying this directory or its contents in any way will cause unexpected or undesired results.

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