User Modes: Initiating Output Retrieval

This chapter describes the following:

The five user modes that control the reports a user can access
The Primary Selection and Primary Selection Criteria panels
Cross-report indexing
Report selection using the SELECT command

CA View selects archived system output for viewing or printing. This output can include both CA View archived SYSOUT and reports that originate from CA Deliver.

Because CA View has such powerful output selection capabilities, the amount of available data can be quite large. To help you manage this potentially large amount of data, CA View groups users by the type of output they need and restricts the available output accordingly. When a user selects data, only the data pertinent to that user is displayed.

CA View relates groups of users to corresponding online user modes:

Each of these user modes represents a specific group of data within your entire set of archived data.
When you enter the CA View system, the Primary Selection panel displays your user mode in the upper-right corner of the menu.
Each user mode has its own Primary Selection panel.
These five panels are slightly different, but they all have the same basic functions. Your entry mode and the other modes you can access depend on the way your system administrator has defined your access capability.

This section contains the following topics:

User Modes

Panels

Primary Selection Panels

Primary Selection Criteria

Cross-Report Indexing

The SELECT Command

Examples for Finding Output

Changing Modes with the MODE Command