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Displays the first translation found for the specified logical name. You can specify the tables that are searched.

Requires read (R) access to a logical name table to display information about any logical name cataloged in that table.

Format

SHOW TRANSLATION logical-name

Parameter

logical-name

Specifies the logical name whose translation you want to display.

Description

The SHOW TRANSLATION command searches one or more logical name tables for a specified logical name and returns the equivalence name of the first match found. You can specify the tables you want to search. If you do not specify a table, SHOW TRANSLATION searches the tables defined by the logical name LNM$DCL_LOGICAL.

The logical name LNM$DCL_LOGICAL contains the list of logical name tables and the order in which they are searched. Unless LNM$DCL_LOGICAL has been redefined for your process, the process, job, group, and system logical name tables are searched, in that order. The first match found is displayed. (To see how LNM$DCL_LOGICAL is defined for your process, enter the command SHOW LOGICAL /TABLE=LNM$DIRECTORIES LNM$DCL_LOGICAL.)

If a table contains more than one entry with the same name, but each name has a different mode, then the translation for the name with the outermost (least privileged) mode is returned.

The SHOW TRANSLATION command is similar to the SHOW LOGICAL command; however, the SHOW TRANSLATION command is executed within the DCL command interpreter (the SHOW LOGICAL command calls an image). Therefore, the SHOW TRANSLATION command does not cause the current image to exit and does not deassign user mode logical names. Also, the SHOW TRANSLATION command does not display iterative translations of a name.

Qualifier

/TABLE=name

Searches the specified table. The default value for the name parameter is LNM$DCL_LOGICAL.

If you specify the table name by using a logical name that translates to more than one table, then each table is searched in the order specified until a match is found.

Examples

$ SHOW TRANSLATION PAYROLL
PAYROLL = DISK1:[ACCOUNTS.WORKING]FACTOR1.DAT;37 (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
      

The SHOW TRANSLATION command in this example displays the translation for the logical name PAYROLL and also displays the name of the table where the logical name was found. In this example, PAYROLL was found in LNM$PROCESS_TABLE, the process logical name table.

$ DEFINE DISK  DKA1:
$ DEFINE/GROUP DISK  DKA2:
$ SHOW TRANSLATION DISK
  DISK = DKA1:(LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
      

The DEFINE commands in this example place entries for the logical name DISK in both the process and group logical name tables. Then, the SHOW TRANSLATION command shows the translation associated with the logical name DISK. By default, the process, job, group, and system tables are searched (in that order). The first match found is displayed. The logical name DISK from the process table (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE) is displayed because it is found before the name DISK in the group table.

$ RUN ORION
[Ctrl/Y]
$ SHOW TRANSLATION TERMINAL
  TERMINAL = _TTT3: (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
$ CONTINUE
      

The RUN command in this example executes the image ORION.EXE. After the Ctrl/Y function interrupts the image, the SHOW TRANSLATION command displays a logical name assignment. The CONTINUE command resumes the execution of the image.

$ SHOW TRANSLATION/TABLE=LNM$SYSTEM USER
  USER = "DKA2:"  (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
      

The SHOW TRANSLATION command in this example displays the translation for the logical name USER. Because a table name is specified, the SHOW TRANSLATION command does not use the default search order. Only the specified table, LNM$SYSTEM, is searched. LNM$SYSTEM is the system logical name table.

$ DEFINE/TABLE=LNM$PROCESS_DIRECTORY MYPROC -
_$ TEST_TABLE, LNM$PROCESS
$ SHOW TRANSLATION/TABLE=MYPROC FILER
  FILER = "[SMITH.FILER]"   (TEST_TABLE)
      

In this example, MYPROC defines a list of logical name tables that you want searched. It asks the system to first search TEST_TABLE (a user-defined table) and then to search LNM$PROCESS (the process logical name table). MYPROC is stored in LNM$PROCESS_DIRECTORY, the process directory table. When you enter the SHOW TRANSLATION command to find FILER in the MYPROC table, the tables TEST_TABLE and LNM$PROCESS are searched, in that order. The first match found is displayed.