Overview

The Online facility is the basic means of communication between the user and Control-O.

Online rule definition gives you the ability to define and modify rule definitions in the Control-O environment.

The Message Statistics screen displays statistics for messages and commands intercepted by Control-O.

The Rule Status screen selectively displays the statuses of rules that have been loaded into memory by Control-O. The Rule Status screen can also be used to hold, delete or free rules.

Automation Options that display, modify, or act upon IOA components or system components can be selected. Customized Automation Options can be designed and added to the Automation Options provided by Control-O.

The Automation Log screen displays the stream of messages and commands captured by Control-O together with additional information relevant to the automation process.

The IOA Variable Database Definition facility enables definition and modification of databases containing Global AutoEdit variables. Variable databases are used extensively by Control-O/COSMOS. For more information, see the Control-O/COSMOS User Guide.

The Control-O/COSMOS Status screen displays resources controlled by Control-O/COSMOS. For more information, see the Control-O/COSMOS User Guide.

The KOA Recorder facility captures manually entered keystrokes and generates a KOA script.

The following pages describe the main features of the Online facility.