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Primary Commands for the InStore Rules Panel

Issue primary commands at the command line. The primary commands you can use on the InStore Rules panel are:

UP/DOWN/LEFT2/RIGHT2

The interactive rules list contains more information per line than can be displayed in 80 columns. Use commands LEFT2 and RIGHT2 (PF10 and PF11, respectively) to switch between the left side and right side of the list. UP/DOWN commands (PF7 and PF8, respectively) position the list vertically.

SORT

The list is initially sorted by rule set and rule name in the rule set, but you can sort the list by any column or group of columns in either ascending or descending order. Use SORT <column names> to reorder the list. Any of the following column names are valid:

LAST, NEXT, and ENABLED are compound columns that sort by both date and time.

By default, column names are sorted in ascending order, but a minus sign can be used to sort them in descending order. For example, SORT TYPE -COUNT sorts column names in ascending order by type and descending order by count.

SORT, when issued with no column names, results in a default sort equivalent to SORT SET NAME.

FIND

Use the FIND command to position a line containing specific information to the top row. For example, FIND EOMDEQ, if used in the previous example, would position the third row to the top of the screen. On this screen, FIND works only in a forward direction and treats everything entered after the FIND command to be part of the string to be found. For example, FIND 1ST LAST would look for 1ST LAST rather than the last instance of 1ST.

Point-and-shoot is enabled to SORT the rule list using any valid column, including the combined columns of LASTFIRE, NEXTFIRE and ENABLED. Point-and-shoot uses descending SORT order for the COUNT, LASTFIRE and ENABLED columns, and ascending SORT order for all other columns. To SORT the rule list using the point-and-shoot method, place the cursor on a column heading and press Enter.