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Scrolling Support

Scrolling support is available for any WATCH command that can generate more than one screen of output. This capability lets you display all generated output.

Scroll through multiple screens of output using the PF7/PF8 function keys or by using the new scrolling subcommands.

Scrolling Subcommands

Scrolling subcommands let you page through multiple screens of output and are supported for the following OPER commands:

• WATCH ACTIVE TASKS
• WATCH DB
• WATCH LTERM
• WATCH TIME
• WATCH USERS

Scrolling Subcommands Syntax

The following diagram shows the syntax scrolling subcommands for the OPER commands:

►►──┬─ DOwn ─┬──────────────┬─┬───────────────────────────────────────►◄
    │        └─ line-count ─┘ │
    ├─ UP ─┬──────────────┬───┤
    │      └─ line-count ─┘   │
    ├─┬─ TOp ───┬─────────────┤
    │ └─ FIrst ─┘             │
    └─┬─ BOttom ─┬────────────┘
      └─ LAst ───┘

Scrolling Subcommands Parameters

This section describes the new scrolling subcommand parameters for the OPER commands:

DOwn

Displays the next set of output.

line-count

Specifies the number of lines of output that is to be skipped relative to the current display position. Replace line-count with a positive number to scroll forward; replace line-count with a negative number to scroll backwards.

Default: The number of detail lines that fit on the screen.

UP

Displays the previous set of output.

line-count

Specifies the number of lines of output that is to be skipped relative to the current display position. Replace line-count with a positive number to scroll backwards; replace line-count with a negative number to scroll forward.

Default: The number of detail lines that fit on the screen.

TOp|FIrst

Positions the display to the first screen of output.

BOttom|LAst

Positions the display to the last screen of output.

Scrolling Subcommands Usage

This section describes how to use the new scrolling subcommands for the OPER commands.

Using PFkeys

You can use PFKEYS in place of scrolling subcommands to page through a set of output:

• PF7 is equivalent to the UP subcommand with no line count.
• PF8 is equivalent to the DOWN subcommand with no line count.

Scrolling Position

The current position within the set of output being displayed is shown at the top-right corner of the screen.