The problem in practice with filtering mechanisms like PREFIX, DEST, OWNER, as well as the much more powerful FILTER command, is that the settings are pervasive across displays and across sessions (saved in your profile).
I found years ago that nine times out of ten, I needed to look at an 'out of the ordinary' selection mostly on occasion in response to some problem investigation. Somebody would call me and say, 'Hey, I ran job AAABBBCC five times and I can't figure out what's wrong'. Changing OWNER or whatever to see these jobs was disruptive because when I was done, I had to reset my selection criteria--assuming I could remember what they were before. In response to a SHARE requirement, IBM implemented the Select command, a temporary override of all other filtering criteria that can be used on any job selection panel. In actual practice, you don't often need to look at ALL of WWONKA's jobs; merely the one's he's have trouble with. S AAABB*, for example, will display all the jobs matching the pattern. Select is not saved. You don't have to reset your normal filtering criteria after Willie is happy again. Once Select was implemented, even IBM developers admitted that it helped them do their own job better. And yes, I confess, it was my requirement. . . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> wrote on 06/30/2005 05:36:29: > HI, > > In SDSF I have set as: > PREFIX=* DEST=(ALL) OWNER=HERMAN SORT=End-Date//D End-Time//D SYSNAME= > I get a list of job owned by HERMAN in the "ST" display. > > How I want to see what is in the hold queue so I go to the "H" display > panel; however, not all the jobs are displayed, ( only the jobs with a > prefix of HERMAN are displayed ). > > If I change the set the prefix to a job name and level the owner the display > is empty. Not until I have set the owner to blank are any of the jobs > displayed. > > This also occurs in the output display "O" > > Can any one point me to the reason for this behavior? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
