Search Control Window

When a database list is requested, Control-M/Tape tries to fill the entire screen display with selected records. If Control-M/Tape has searched a specified threshold number of database records without filling the screen, and more records remain to be searched, Control-M/Tape interrupts the search and displays the Search Control window. This window enables the user to specify what Control-M/Tape should do next.

The default threshold number for searched records is initially specified in the IOA Global profile.

The Search Control window displays the number of records that have been searched or selected, and allows you to specify whether Control-M/Tape should

• stop searching the remaining records and display the records already selected
• continue searching the Media Database list, pausing periodically (after a user-specified number of records have been searched) to allow the search to be stopped, if desired
• search until the entire screen is filled (an unconditional search)

You can change the number of records Control-M/Tape searches by specifying a new number in the window, or by requesting that your INCONTROL administrator edit the IOA Global profile directly and change the value specified for profile parameter SINSLMT.

Figure 66 Search Control Window

  DATABASE LIST < V / D  > ------------------------------------------------  (TI)

  COMMAND ===>   +----------------------------------------------+ SCROLL===> CRSR

  O ---DATASET N |                                              |   DS STATUS

    DSN230.DB2P. |    NUMBER OF REJECTED RECORDS:   001001      |   Active

  ====== >>>>>>> |    NUMBER OF SELECTED RECORDS:   000004      |<<<<<<<<< ======

                 |                                              |

                 |    PLEASE SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:       |

                 |                                              |

                 |    1 - STOP SEARCH IMMEDIATELY               |

                 |    2 - ASK AGAIN AFTER 001000 RECORDS        |

                 |    3 - UNCONDITIONAL SEARCH                  |

                 |                                              |

                 +----------------------------------------------+

  USE OPT COMMAND TO DISPLAY/HIDE OPTION LIST                            14.39.39

The following fields are displayed:

Table 88 Fields of the Search Control WIndow

The following options are available:

1 – STOP SEARCH IMMEDIATELY

Search is terminated. Records that have been selected until this option was issued are displayed.

2 – ASK AGAIN AFTER number RECORDS

Search is resumed until the specified number of records has been searched. At this point, the Search Control window is displayed again, allowing the user to continue or cancel the search.

3 – UNCONDITIONAL SEARCH

Search is resumed until the entire screen is filled or until all the records in the Media Database have been searched.