Jeff,

I would opt for #4. Its nice to see the full model number, maybe in a
format=detail. But I sure don't want to have the volume set name wrap on
the screen. When you have more than one drive listed it sure makes a
mess.

John Zoltak
North American Mfg Co


> We could:
> 1) just show the first 9 bytes of the model and thus not change the
>    starting column for the 'volume' and 'volume set-gen' fields.
>
> 2) reserving 24 bytes, but that seems excessive and would look like:
>
>    LDEV-TYPE                   STATUS   VOLUME (VOLUME SET - GEN)
>   ----------                  -------- --------------------------
> 12345-C23456789                MASTER
> MEMBER1xxxxxxxxx(MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_
> SET-0)
>
> [above line wraps around on my 80 byte width screen]
>
> 3) if the model number is <= 9 bytes show it as is.  If it is > 9
> bytes
>    display the first 8 bytes with a '$' in the 9th byte to indicate
>    truncation.
>
> 4) apply rule 3) but make the field width 12 bytes rather than 9.
> This
>    would look like:
>
>    LDEV-TYPE       STATUS      VOLUME (VOLUME SET - GEN)
>   ----------      --------    --------------------------
> 12345-C23456789    MASTER      MEMBER1
> (MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET-0)
>
>
> Comments?
>
> Jeff Vance, CSY
>
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