JPS5925256B2 - display system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a display system, and more particularly to a display system that displays the status of each station in an online system consisting of at least one series.

In recent years, various types of information have been processed by connecting a central processing unit, a terminal control device, a plurality of input/output devices, etc. online. Such a system is called a one-line online system, and a system including a terminal control device and a plurality of input/output devices is called a station. An actual large-scale system consists of multiple series of online systems, each system including multiple stations. For example, in a bank business processing system, a central processing unit is installed at the head office or another central branch in each region, and the stations implemented at each branch and the central processing unit are connected via communication lines, and each A plurality of online systems are constructed by connecting the central processing units of each through communication lines.

On the other hand, recently there has been a demand for a display system that can monitor the status of each station at a glance in such an online system consisting of a plurality of systems.

That is, this is a system that collectively displays the operational status of the input/output devices of each station, the failure occurrence status, etc. together with changes over time. Conventionally, as a system for displaying the status of each station in such an online system,
An indicator lamp is provided corresponding to each line in a communication control device, etc., and the status of the station is monitored by the display of the lamp.

According to this display system, the system lacks flexibility, and inquiries about failure conditions from outside, such as an operator, must be responded to through another inquiry device. Furthermore, with this type of display system, it is almost impossible to display the operational status of each station over time. The object of the invention is therefore to provide at least one
An object of the present invention is to provide an improved display system that collectively displays the operation status or failure occurrence status of each station in a series of online systems over time.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a display system that can immediately respond to inquiries from outside regarding the failure status of each station in an online system.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a display system that accepts the status of each station from each online system of an online system consisting of a plurality of systems and displays it at the display position of the corresponding display board. It is in.

The present invention is directed to the monitoring of at least one series of online systems.

Of course, the present invention can also be applied to multiple online systems. Each online system has a central processing unit,
It is composed of a terminal control device and a plurality of input/output devices (hereinafter simply referred to as 1/0) controlled by the terminal control device (hereinafter simply referred to as TCE). Specifically, it monitors the operational status and failure occurrence status of a station consisting of a TCE and a plurality of I/O devices such as a display device, a printer device, and a bank teller device. Usually, in each online system, multiple TCEs are connected to the central processing unit,
Since multiple I/Os are connected to each TCE, the present invention monitors the status of multiple stations in at least one series of online systems. The status of each station is monitored by the following display system. A display control device is connected to the central processing unit in the online system, and a monitoring display panel is connected to the feeding control device. Of course, for an online system consisting of multiple series, the central processing unit in each series of online systems is connected to the control device. In this case, the status of each station within the plurality of online systems is displayed on the display panel. If multiple display panels are installed, each display panel will display the same status. The display board is composed of a number of displays, one corresponding to each station in the online system.

The operating status and failure occurrence status of the corresponding station are displayed on the display. Therefore, the status of each station is displayed all at once on the many indicators that make up the display panel.
The operator can monitor the status of the online system and the status of each station in the online system at a glance. For example, the display device constituting the display panel is disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 3.
A moving magnet type indicator such as that disclosed in US Pat. Of course, the present invention is not limited to this, and it is also possible to use an electrochromic display or the like. In any case, the display device may be composed of a large number of display elements. Information from each station includes address information and status information indicating the status of the station, and this information is sequentially added to this display system as dot information corresponding to display elements (hereinafter simply referred to as dots).

Then, a display on the display panel is selected based on the address information, and station status information is displayed on the corresponding display.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the address information and status information are discarded after displaying the status information of the display, but the display status continues to be maintained until the latest information of the display is received, so the display panel The latest status of each station is always displayed.

Therefore, the operating status of the entire online system can be immediately grasped by the degree of display color on the display panel or the shape of the display pattern. For example, if the color indicating a failure is red, the operator etc. can quickly detect stations where red display elements are displayed intensively or continuously for a long time, and special It is also possible to take action. The system also allows the operator to easily input and display status information for each station in response to input from a keyboard or other similar device. In this way, according to the display system of the present invention, a display device is provided corresponding to each station in the online system, and the operating status and failure occurrence situation of the corresponding station can be determined by the display color or display pattern of the display elements constituting the display device. can be viewed in a list.

It is also possible to arrange a large number of display devices on a display panel and view the status of each station in a plurality of online systems. Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing a display system to which the present invention is generally applied. The display system 1 includes N display panels 301 to 30N and is connected to these display panels 301 to 30N via connection lines 501 to 50N, respectively.
It is composed of a control device 2 that controls the display of ~30N.
Online systems 1 to N consisting of N series are connected to this display system 1 via connection lines 401 to 40N, respectively, and the status of the N series online systems is displayed. Although not shown, each online system is composed of a central processing unit, a plurality of TCEs connected to the central processing unit, and a plurality of I/Os controlled by the TCE. Therefore, in this embodiment, the operating status and failure occurrence status of each of a plurality of stations consisting of TCE and I/O are displayed on the display panel. Each of the display boards 301 to 30N corresponds to each series of online systems, and one display board displays not only the status of the corresponding online system but also the status of other online systems. Note that the number of display panels does not necessarily have to correspond to the number of online systems. These situations will become clear from the explanations given below. Each display panel is composed of a plurality of displays, and each display is composed of a known movable magnet type display element. The weather report displayed on a certain display panel is sent from the central processing unit in the online system to the control unit 2 via a connection line.
, the control device 2 checks this display information,
If the information is correct, it is accepted, a display position on the display panel is specified, and predetermined information is sent to the corresponding display panel as a display signal.

In the description of the embodiments to be described later, an example will be disclosed in which the status of each station in three online systems is displayed on three display panels. With reference to FIGS. 2A and 2B, the display system of the online system consisting of three systems A, B, and C will be described in detail.

For ease of understanding, for example, in a banking processing system, an A-line online system is the same banking processing system in district A, a B-line online system is the same system in district B, and a C-line online system is the same system in district C. It is assumed that each online system is connected by a known technology. Normally, status information for each station in the online system A series is applied from input 60 via line 10 to input buffer circuit 63.

The status information of each station in the online system B series is transmitted from the input 61 through the line 11 to the input power supply circuit 64.
added to. Status information for each station in the online system C series is applied from input 62 via line 12 to input buffer circuit 65. On the other hand, if some kind of abnormality occurs in a certain online system, it is possible to apply the signal to the input buffer circuit via the line of the online system of another system.

For example, when an abnormality occurs in the online system C, the status information of each station of the online system C is applied to the input B of the online system B series, and is applied to the input buffer circuit 64 via the line 11. Each input buffer circuit 63, 64, 65 connects to the line 13, 14, respectively.
, 15 to the data bus 55. A keyboard 66 is also provided via line 16 for the operator to enter status information off-line. Information entered from the keyboard 66 is thereafter treated in the same manner as information entered from the input buffer circuit described above. The input buffer circuit checks the added information and sets this information if normal.

At the same time, the input buffer circuit informs the data processing circuit 68 that information has been received.
generates an interrupt signal. If the data processing circuit 68 is in a state where information from the input buffer circuit can be accepted, the data processing circuit 68 immediately accepts the information from the input buffer circuit. For example, in the case of an interrupt from the input buffer circuit 63, when the data processing circuit 68 receives the interrupt, it transmits status information from the input buffer circuit 63 to the data bus 55 via the line 13.
put it on.

The data processing circuit 68 takes the status information on the data bus 55 from the line 17 into the input multiplexer circuit 67 and from the line 18 into the data processing circuit 68 .

The data processing circuit 68 can be constructed from a logic circuit, but is preferably a processing circuit such as a microcomputer.

In this example, data processing circuit 68 will be described as using a microcomputer. A group of instructions to be executed by the microcomputer is stored in advance in the program memory 70, and is sequentially executed on the line 25, bus 55, and line 17.
, input multiplexer circuits 6, 7, and line 18 to a data processing circuit 68.

The program memory 70 may be a read-only memory such as a well-known ROM (read-only memory). Instructions (programs) stored in program memory 70
is designated and read out by the address buffer circuit 71.

The setting of the address to the address buffer circuit 71 depends on whether the control signal from the data processing circuit 68 is applied via the line 23 or the control signal from the control circuit 69 is applied via the line 22. It is determined. The control circuit 69 transfers data from the data processing circuit 68 to the line 19.
is received via line 21 and is applied to input multiplexer circuit 67 via line 21 for selecting data on data bus 55 and inputting it to input multiplexer circuit 67 .

Furthermore, a data processing circuit 68 is controlled via line 20. Of the station status information taken into the data processing circuit 68, the address information is converted to be displayed at a designated display position on the display panel and sent to the data bus 55 via the line 38.
is placed on the start address register 74 via line 30.
and is simultaneously set in the stop address register 72 via line 27. It is also added to the buffer address register JMOV via line 32. Display data information is transmitted via line 38, data bus 55, and line 33.
Sent to Batsuhua 78. Writing data to data buffer 78 is controlled by a control signal sent from gate circuit 76 via line 28.

Each time data is transferred to data puffer 78, the contents of starting address register 74 are changed. This is done by a signal output from the plus 1 circuit 75 onto line 29. The modified contents of the starting address register 74 are sent on line 75 to gate circuit 76 . The output of the gate circuit 76 is sent to the data buffer 78 as described above and is also applied to the comparison circuit 73 via the line 28. In the comparison circuit 73, the content of the stop address register 72 and the updated content of the start address register 74 are compared, and the content of the start address register 74 is updated until they match, and each time the content of the start address register 74 is updated by the comparison circuit. Sent to 73.

When the contents of the stop address register 72 match the contents of the updated start address register 74, an address match signal is sent to the gate circuit 79 via line 37. Display control units 86, 90, and 92 are provided corresponding to the display panels 301, 302, and 303, respectively.

Since these display control units have the same configuration, internal configuration diagrams of the display controls 90 and 92 are omitted. The display control section includes a data shift register 81 that stores display data sent via the line 35, and a display control circuit 8 that performs display control using address control signals sent via the bus 55.
2. The display position selection circuit 84 selects the display position of the display panel under the control of the data shift register 81 and the display control circuit 82, and the display drive circuit 83 drives the display elements. When the display control units 86, 90, and 92 are in a display ready state (hereinafter referred to as the ready state), display data is transferred to the data shift register 81 in the display control unit via the line 35.
sent to.

When the display control section 86 is in a busy state, for example, when the previous data is being displayed, no display data is transferred until it becomes ready.

For example, address information indicating the display position on the display panel 301 is sent to the display control circuit 82 via the line 36, data bus 55, and line 48. On the other hand, if the data is for the display panel 302, the data is transferred to the display control section 90, and if it is data for the display panel 303, the data is transferred to the display control section 92. Based on the display data stored in the data shift register 81 and the address from the display control circuit 82,
The status of each station is displayed at predetermined positions on the display panels 301, 302, and 303. First, the address data of the display control circuit 82 is sent to the display position selection circuit 84 via the line 41. The display position selection circuit 84 receives the received address data via the line 43 to the display panel 301, and selects the corresponding display position. Preferably, a relay drive selection circuit is used as the display position selection circuit. Next, the display data in the data shift register 81 is applied to a display drive circuit 83 via a line 40, and is previously selected by a display position selection circuit 84. At the display position, a display drive signal is emitted from the display drive circuit 83 to the line 42.
Note that the display panel 302 and the display panel 302 also operate in a similar manner.

FIG. 3 shows the format of status information in the display system.

Status information from each station of the online system is input into the display system in such a format. The status information includes an address field and a data field, where address 1 is selection information for a display panel, address 2 is selection information for a display block in a certain display panel, and address 3 is display block selection information in a display block. This is selection information. data 1 to data 7
is the station status information displayed on the display. Details of how data 1 to data 7 are displayed will be explained later with reference to FIG. Next, the configuration of the display panel will be explained.

Figure 4 shows an example of a display panel. In this example, the display panel 30
1 is composed of 27 display blocks 101, and each display block 101 is composed of 8 displays 103.
It is generally preferable that the display block 101 corresponds to one series of online system and the display unit 103 corresponds to each station in the online system, but depending on the number of stations included in the online system. If there are many display blocks 101, one online system may be associated with a plurality of display blocks 101. here,
A name plate 102 is provided corresponding to the display 103, on which the name of each station is written.

Therefore, in the online banking processing system, if each station corresponds to a bank's fulcrum, the name plate 102 will have a branch name written on it. FIG. 5 shows the configuration of the display 103.

The display 103 consists of 7 vertical display elements (dots) and 5 horizontal display elements (dots), a total of 35 dots. The display element is a known movable magnet type display element, and the front surface of each display element is colored in a predetermined color, and the back surface is colored in black. The surface colored with a predetermined color differs in color depending on the position of each display element. In FIG. 5, a display element 105 showing green color
is "G", the display element 106 which shows red is "R", the display element 107 which shows white is 7W, the display element 108 which shows blue is 7B", and the display element 109 which shows orange is "0".
shows the color of each. Therefore, the display 103
The color scheme of the display elements is green, red, white, blue, and orange in order from the left side from the first row to the third row, and all the colors from the fourth row to the seventh row are red. Of course, the back surfaces of these display elements are all black. The function of the display 103 will be explained in relation to the situation information from the station shown in FIG.
The first line of 03 corresponds to data 1, and the second to seventh lines correspond to data 2 to data 7, respectively.
In this embodiment, the dots from the first line to the third line of the display 103 display the operating status of the station, and the dots from the fourth line to the seventh line indicate the failure occurrence status of the station. Perform display.

For example, three display elements colored in the first shade of green from the left side of the first, second, and third rows indicate "normal online status."

Next, the three display elements colored red in the second stage indicate "file failure of the station", and the third display element is colored red.
The three display elements colored in tearful white indicate "operation stopped", and the three display elements colored in tearful blue indicate "connecting to another system". Three orange display elements at the end of the day indicate "operation completed".
The fourth of the station failure status display dots.
The two display elements colored red in the first column from the left side of the fifth row indicate "TCE down" for the first unit, and the two display elements colored red from the left side of the sixth and seventh rows indicate The two display elements colored red indicate that the second unit is "TCE down".

From the left side of the 4th and 5th rows, the 2nd red display elements indicate "I/0A down" for the 1st unit, and the 6th
The two display elements colored in tearful red in the second row and seventh row indicate "I/0A down" of the second unit, and the third display element from the left in the fourth and fifth rows The two display elements colored in red indicate the third unit's "I/0A is down."
From the left side of the 6th and 7th rows, the two display elements colored in red, the third color, indicate that the fourth device is "/0A down."

[I/0B down] and "I/0C down" are displayed with similar functions. Indicator 1 is shown in Figures 6 to 9.
A display example of station status information displayed in 03 is shown.

That is, FIG. 6 shows that the corresponding station of the online system is operating normally online. In other words, when the online system is always operating normally, a predetermined portion of the entire display panel is displayed in green. Similarly, FIG. 7 shows that the operation of the corresponding station, which is operating normally, has been completed. Further, FIG. 8 shows that the first TCE has failed, and FIG. 9 shows that two I/O-Bs have failed. In other words, areas where there are many red areas on the display panel indicate that many failures have occurred. In this way, the operational status and failure occurrence status of each station in the online system are displayed at once, and the display status can be changed depending on changes in each station over time. Therefore, the operator monitoring the display panel can grasp the latest status of the online system at a glance.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing a display system according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the arrangement of FIGS. 2A and 2B, and FIGS. 2A and 2B are a diagram showing the display system. 3 is a diagram showing the format of status information in the display system, FIG. 4 is a front view of a display panel used in an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a configuration of the display panel. FIGS. 6 to 9 are diagrams illustrating various display examples displayed on the display. Explanation of symbols, 1...Display system, 2...
...Control device, 301~30N...Display panel, 4
01~40N, 501~50N... Connection wire, 1
01...Display block, 103...Display device, 105-109...Display element.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a display system that displays the operating status or failure occurrence status of each station in a multiple online system consisting of multiple stations, a large number of indicators are arranged to correspond to each station and display the status. , and a display panel in which a plurality of display devices are grouped together to form a block, and a storage means for temporarily storing status information and address information sent from each station, in order to correspond to the online system of each series. means for selecting a block on the display panel and a display device within the block according to the address information; and a means for selecting a block on the display panel and a display device within the block; A display system comprising display control means for displaying a pattern.