What is BOX VOLUME Pair

BOX:VOLUME pair:

This is a term that was used when Digital Standard Mumps (DSM) was the major mumps system used and is a way to determine the namespace and instance name that is in use for this installation.

To determine it:

D GETENV^%ZOSV W Y

Reading the results:

You should see a line that looks like the following: VISTA^VISTA^WIN^VISTA:CACHE

This line contains several pieces of information and is interpreted as follows Each piece of information is separated by a ^, so there are four (4) pieces of information in the above line

Piece 1: VISTA = UCI/Namespace Piece 2: VISTA = VOL(UME) Piece 3: WIN = NODE (HOSTNAME) Piece 4: VISTA:CACHE = BOX:VOLUME

NOTE: Notice that the volume is in the wrong place when comparing their places in the BOX:VOLUME pair. The output from the above command is correct. This is due to historical purposes.