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View Menu

The View menu provides a number of tools that assist in the manipulation of the object data. Some of the more common View menu options are:

Table Pane

Displays the data as a table.

Graph Pane

Displays the data as a graph.

List Pane

Displays the data as icons.

Trend Pane

Displays the historical data as a graphical trend report.

Note: If you have not created a Trend View of the object then Trend is not displayed in the View Menu, nor is the Trend View icon displayed in the bottom left corner of the User View.

Detail

Displays one selected row in detail by listing the column values as rows in the detail window; that is, the fields in the row are displayed vertically instead of horizontal in a separate window so you can use it to view all the columns of a wide table at once and not have to scroll laterally through the columns of the table.

To Use the Display Detailed Line Option

1. Click a row in the Table View that you want to view.
2. Click the Detail option in the View menu or click the Display Detailed Line icon on the toolbar.

   The Details window appears with the line information displayed vertically.

3. In the Details window use the Display Previous Line or Display Next Line buttons to view the previous or next record in the table.

Filter

Lets you create formulas to filter the data displayed in the table.

Note: For more information about Filter, see the section Defining a Filter.

Sort

Displays a sort dialog that you can use to sort the table by the values in the columns of the table.

Note: For more information about Sort, see the section Defining a Sort.

Input List

Use this function to specify input to the creation of the object. The type of input can vary from object to object. In some cases, such as when working with CA Disk archive and backup data, the Input List provides the names of one or more data sets from which the object data is extracted; that is, the CA Disk Files data sets. In the case of the "BCS Data Set Entries" object (which lists catalog entries), the Input List is a data set name or data set name pattern to be found in the system catalogs. For other objects, the Input List is an input command to the specific product that produces the object.

In most cases, each Input List can be configured to provide system defaults. The Input List dialog allows you to override the default values. Click the Help button in the Input List dialog to find out how to use the dialog.

When the Input List consists of data set names, and GDGs are appropriate, either relative or absolute names may be entered. You may also specify System variables and System Symbols within the Input List, and their active values will be substituted.

Note: Because an Input List is not executed in any specific object context, you cannot use Object Related variables for substitution.

Range

This item appears in tape objects to limit the scan to a range of tape volume serial numbers. This improves the response time because the entire control file does not need to be scanned.

Statistics

Reports statistics for the object data:

Full Statistics

The Full option of the View, Statistics menu displays the total of the values in columns containing numeric data.

The Full (Statistics) displays in a separate window the total, average, minimum, and maximum values for every numeric column in the table, if those values are applicable to the given column. The Total column is preceded by a column named CanTot that indicates whether the given value can (Y) or cannot (N) be totaled. Similarly, CanAvg and CanMinMax columns specify whether the values can be averaged and whether minimum and maximum values are applicable.

Totals Statistics

The Totals option of the View, Statistics menu displays the total of the values in columns containing numeric data.

The Totals (Statistics) displays in a separate window, the rows list the numeric columns with their total values.

Rebuild Table

Use this function to update table properties (color and scale base) while the object is being displayed. If you change the color or scale base of a displayed object and want to redisplay the table with the new settings without having to close and reopen the table, select Rebuild Table from the View menu.

Variables

Displays a list of variables you can select to substitute real values for the template variables in CA Vantage SRM. Suppose the action you are defining is a backup and the substitution variable is DSN (data set name). To generate the JCL code that executes the backup, substitute the names of all the data sets that you want to back up for the %%DSN%% variable in the template.