It's described in the NetView for UNIX 6.0.1/2 Release Notes p3.  To wit:

Acknowledged Status Import/Export Capabilities...

A new global-based mode for Acknowledge is available in Tivoli
NetView for UNIX V6.0.1. When global-based mode is set, the
Acknowledged status is an object attribute. All NetView clients are
notified when an object is acknowledged or unacknowledged
immediately, regardless of which map is open and even if the action
is performed on a read-only map. In addition, the Acknowledged
status can be set on an object from the command line, permitting the
transfer of the Acknowledged status to backed up NetView databases.

Global-based Mode
This section describes the global-based mode in more detail.
To activate the global-based mode, set the environment variable
NVMAPGLOBALACK equal to 1 on the NetView machine. It must
be set before you invoke the NetView console.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Bursik [mailto:tivoliesm AT hotmail DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 2:50 PM
To: nv-l AT tkg DOT com
Subject: RE: [NV-L] Acknowledging


Global Acknowlege Mode? I have searched the Administrators Guide and didn't 
see this one. How do you do this?

Scott


>From: "Ingersoll, Robert" <bob.ingersoll AT usaa DOT com>
>Reply-To: IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l AT tkg DOT com>
>To: "'IBM NetView Discussion'" <nv-l AT tkg DOT com>
>Subject: RE: [NV-L] Acknowledging
>Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:49:32 -0600
>
>As designed at 5.1.3.  Upgrade to 6.0.2 or better and use global 
>Acknowledge
>mode.  It will do what you want.
>
>
>--
>Bob Ingersoll
>USAA Information Technology Company (ITCO)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Allison, Jason (JALLISON) [mailto:JALLISON AT arinc DOT com]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 1:34 PM
>To: 'nv-l AT tkg DOT com'
>Subject: [NV-L] Acknowledging
>
>
>AIX 4.3.3 - Netview 5.1.3
>
>We are now instructing our operators to acknowledge container symbols when
>there is a failure that is known.  This works fine when we have one 
>instance
>of 'netview' running.  Acknowledging works as expected.  We have come 
>across
>some problems when bringing up another instance of 'netview' (TME10 GUI).
>The background is we have a second AIX box that will remotely shell into 
>the
>first box already running an instance of 'netview'.  We will bring up this
>second instance of TME10 as a read-only map, which has worked fine for some
>time.  Our problem is that the second instance of the map does not seems to
>synchronize the currently acknowledged containers, nor if I acknowledge a
>container while both are up do they then sync.
>
>My question(s) are:
>
>- Is this 'as designed'?
>
>- If so, why?  Pros/Cons.  Why is this desirable?
>
>- Can both maps be synced up?
>
>- What are my options?
>
>
>
>Hopefully I am not missing any information,
>Thanks for your time,
>
>
>Jason Allison
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