Maintaining Personal Groups
The Groups view is the primary panel for maintaining your group definitions. You use Groups to group systems for reporting purposes.
- From the System Definitions Menu, select option 3 Maintain Group definitions
- From the System Definitions list panel, enter the VIEW GROUPS command or select View->Groups in the action bar
- Define a new group, or copy or repeat a group along with its associated systems
- Update or view the systems that belong to a group, or delete a group that is no longer required
- Use the FIND and SORT commands to locate entries in the list
- Use Filter->Set Filter in the action bar to display only groups that match your specified criteria
File Edit Filter View Options Help
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Personal Groups Row 1 from 4
Command ===> _________________________________________________ Scroll ===> ____
Select to review the Systems in the Group.
/ Use Group Description
_ 13 PRODMRO1 Production MRO______________________
_ 34 WEEKLY Weekly SMF data_____________________
_ 8 MONTHLY Monthly SMF data____________________
S 2 YEARLY Yearly SMF data_____________________
********************************* End of list *********************************
F1=Help F3=Exit F5=Rfind F7=Backward F8=Forward F10=Actions
F12=Cancel
- Use
- The Group Use count. This indicates the number of Systems defined to the Group.
- Group
- The name of a Group. The name can be up to eight
alphanumeric (A-Z,0-9) or special (@,#,$) characters.
A Group name is an arbitrary name used to identify a group of related Systems for reporting purposes, such as those systems that connect via IRC/MRO, ISC/APPC, IPIC, or transaction grouping.
- Description
- Description is free-format text up to 36 characters to describe the group.
Line Actions
- ⁄
- Display the menu of line actions
- S
- Specify a group and the systems that belong to it
- I
- Insert a new group
- R
- Repeat this row
- C
- Copy this row
- M
- Move this row
- A
- Move⁄Copy after this row
- B
- Move⁄Copy before this row
- D
- Delete this row
Primary Commands
- NEW name
- This command creates a
new Group. The group name must be unique.
Also available from File in the action bar.
See Figure 1.
- SAVE
- This command saves any
changes you have made during this invocation of System Definitions.
Also available from File in the action bar.
- FIND string
- This command (or F) looks for the specified character string in all columns or a subset
of columns in the displayed data. The string need only be enclosed in quotes if there are embedded
spaces. The search is not case sensitive. The display scrolls to the row where the string is found
and positions the cursor on the matching data. To find more occurrences, use F5 or the
RFIND command repeatedly.
If there is no match but the search did not begin at the start of the list, the screen does not change and the message *Bottom of data reached* is displayed. Use F5 or RFIND to search from the top. If there is no match in the entire list, the screen does not change and the message No CHARS xxx found is displayed.
Also available from Edit in the action bar.
- SORT GROUP|DESCription
- This command sorts the
list of Groups by name (the default) or description. The order is retained on exit.
Also available from Edit in the action bar.
- RESET
- This command (or RES) removes all outstanding line actions.
Also available from Edit in the action bar.
- VIEW SYSTEMS|FILES
- This command takes you to the Systems or Files view. Updates are saved when you change views.
Also available from View in the action bar.
- MENU
- This command takes you to the System Definitions Menu. Updates are saved when you go to the
menu.
Also available from View in the action bar.