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Show Related Object Navigational Actions

The Storage Object Navigation Actions category includes the Show in object_name navigational type action. This action displays the selected item in another object. In the storage engine, these options are referred to as zooming to another object. When you select a row in an object, the Navigation section of the Actions pane lists show actions for the other storage objects the item attributes are available in. You can then select a Navigation show action to drill down to the related object based on the information in the selected row.

For example, if you start with an object display of online DASD volumes, and you select the row with one of the volumes of interest. The Actions pane opens with a Navigation show actions list of related objects. Such as the data sets (that reside on that volume) or the VTOC attributes (for that volume).

You can also select the show action tab in the Detail pane that expands at the bottom of the Investigator window when you select an object line item. When you select a show action tab in the Detail pane, the details of the item in another object is displayed.

The difference between selecting show actions in the Details pane and the Actions pane is:

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