Filtering a list panel
The following filters limit the items displayed on a list panel:
- Path to the list panel
- The sequence of menu options and line actions you use to navigate
to a list panel determines which items the list panel can display.
For example, selecting primary menu option 2
CICS Resources, and then entering
line action S next to a CICSĀ® configuration, limits the
subsequent list panel to displaying resource definitions from that CICS configuration. For a map of
the different paths you can take to a list panel of resource definitions,
see Figure 1.
Other filters, described in the following items, can further limit the items displayed.
- Filter fields to restrict column values
- Available on most list panels. The filter fields above the column headings on a list panel allow you to specify values or patterns that the column values must match.
- Search criteria to restrict attribute values
- Only available on some list panels. The action bar choice allows you to specify criteria that the attributes of resource definitions on a list panel must meet.
- Show duplicate, unique, "different", or "missing" resource definitions
- Only available on some list panels. The List panels under option 4.1 Multiple Configs offer two additional choices:
- Show different checksums
- Shows resource definitions that have the same name and resource type but different checksum values.
- Show missing names
- Shows resource definitions whose combination of name and resource type exist in some but not all of the selected CICS configurations.
You can use the Show filter to identify resource definitions that need "cleaning up". For example, you can identify resource definitions that have multiple copies where you only need one; or resource definitions that have the same name and type, and should perhaps be identical, but have different attribute values.
action
bar choice limits the resource definitions displayed on a list panel
based on comparisons between resource definitions. You can limit a
list panel to show only duplicate or unique resource definitions,
based either on their name and resource type, or a checksum calculated
from their attribute values. The list panel applies the Show filter
after applying the filter fields and search criteria. - Display limit on the maximum number of items on a list panel
- Primary menu option 0 Settings allows you to set an upper limit on the number of resource definitions displayed on a list panel. If the number of resource definitions matching the filters exceeds this limit, then the list panel displays a message and does not show any items.