Understanding basic view concepts

This section introduces several BMC AMI Ops facilities and navigational methods that are part of every VistaPoint view. Experienced ISPF users should be familiar with most of the introductory navigational techniques described in this section.

1. Start VistaPoint by logging on through the BMC AMI Ops Selection Menu.
   You should see the MVVPOVER screen showing APOVERC and APOVER in two windows.

   Note

   If you prefer using EZVISTA, follow these steps instead:

   1. Select V on the BMC AMI Ops Selection menu.
   2. On the BMC AMI Ops Batch selection menu, enter 1.
   3. In the Context Confirmation screen, enter EZVISTA in the Screen field. The VistaPoint easy menu is displayed.
   4. Place the cursor on the Applications field and press Enter. The APOVER view is displayed.

2.  Enter w1.close to close the first window.

   Tip

   You can direct a command to a specific window with the Wx command, where x is the window number. A period should be placed between Wx and the command in the form Wx.command .

   The APOVERR view is displayed. Notice that the screen is divided into three different areas: the control area at the top and one or more window areas composed of a window information line and window display area. All BBI-3 BMC AMI Ops screens are formatted like the APOVER example.

   

   The control area gives the status of your session parameters and includes the COMMAND line, and accept the commands you enter.

   The window information line is always the top border of a BMC AMI Ops window. It gives the status of the view that appears in the window. This lists the fields that appear in the window information line. You can get a description of each field by moving the cursor directly over a field and pressing your Help key. 

   

   Views appear in the window area shown in the bottom half. Up to 20 windows can be open simultaneously in the window area. The remainder of this section shows how to manipulate view data that appears in the window area of a BMC AMI Ops screen.

   As you complete the steps, you may have questions about a particular view or a field within a view. VistaPoint has an extensive online help system. Using BMC AMI Ops pop-up windows, you can get information about VistaPoint views and descriptions of the individual fields within each view.

3.  Move the cursor over the view name APOVER that appears on the window information line and press your Help key.
   This shows a typical help pop-up window with a functional description of the view. Additional information can be seen by scrolling the cursor to the highlighted list of items beneath the initial description of the view and pressing Enter. Additional pop-up windows overlay the first pop-up for every hyperlink that you make within online help.

    05DEC2000 10:29:34 ----------- INFORMATION DISPLAY ---------------------------
   COMMAND ===>                                             SCROLL ===> CSR
   CURR WIN ===> 2        ALT WIN ===>
   >W2 =APOVER===========(ALL======*=======)05DEC2000==10:07:17====MVVP=========53
   CMD Appl          Interval %Obj   <= 80%- 90%- >     Total Worst Best  Avg
   --- --------      0.....50...100  80% 90% 100% 100%  Wklds %Obj  %Obj  Resp---
   DTAPPL       ---                                                       0.000
   PGBAPPL      ---  Help                APOVER                 Help      0.000
   BBEEMA2      ---  Command ==>                      Scroll ==> CSR      0.000
   BAD          ---  --------------------------------------------------   0.000
   PORTUGAL     ---                                                       0.000
   GARYTZ       --- APOVER shows a performance summary of VistaPoint      0.000
   IHKCICS      --- applications over the current interval. Each row      0.000
   AN           --- of the view represents a single application.          0.000
   WAYNEDB2     ---                                                       0.000
   JD           --- Performance is reported as the combined interval      0.000
   FINANCE      --- Percent of Objective calculated for the workloads     0.000
   APPLWDW      --- belonging to an application.                          0.000
   CMR1         ---                                                       0.000
   CSGM         --- For more information on this view, place the          0.000
   JPMO         --- cursor on one of the following topics and press       0.000
   MARTYALL     --- ENTER.                                                0.000
   MORTGAGE     ---                                                       0.000
   SIGFRIED     --- o Actions available from this view                    0.000
   TESTIE       ---                                                       0.000
   WILLIE       --- o Elements in this view                               0.000
   RDA          ---                                                       0.000
   TESTWKLD     --- o Positional parameters                               0.000
   IHK          ---                                                       0.000
   BBSECH7      --- o Keyword parameters                                  0.000
   BBDB2        ---                                                       0.000
   SAMPLE       --- o Forms that are valid for this view                  0.000
   HAPPY        ---                                                       0.000
   BBPHONE      --- o Sort information                                    0.000
   APPROD       ---                                                       0.000
   WBCCICS      --- APOVER is a TABULAR SUMMARY view.                     0.000
   PAYROLL2     ---                                                       0.000

4. Press your END key to close the help pop-up window and return to the original APOVER view.

   You can get view or field help in the following ways:

   •  View Help
     • Move the cursor directly over the view name shown on the window information line and press your Help key.
     • Enter help view_name on the COMMAND line.
   • Field Help Move the cursor directly over a field in a view and press your Help key

   Notice the greater than sign (>) at the far left of the window information line. Views sometimes have more data fields than can be shown in a window. The additional data indicator field tells you when you have view fields beyond the borders of the window. The greater than sign (>) indicates that fields are beyond the right window border. The less than sign (<) indicates that fields are beyond the left window border.

5. Press your RIGHT PF key to shift the view to the right.
   You should see the Avg CPU, Avg Delay, Tran Rate, and Total Trans fields when you shift your view to the right.
   Notice that the additional data indicator field now shows the less than sign (<). Also, the CMD and Appl fields remained at their positions when you shifted the view to the right. In BMC AMI Ops, the CMD field and the first data column remain as row holders when you shift a view left or right.

   Tip

   Horizontal scrolling is done by:

   • Right 
     • RIght command 
     • designated right-shift PF key (PF11/PF23 by default)
     • entering the number of columns to shift on the COMMAND line and pressing the right-shift key

   • Left
     • LEft command
     • designated left-shift PF key (PF10/PF22 by default) 
     • entering the number of columns to shift on the COMMAND line and pressing the left-shift key.

   Occasionally, views have more rows than can be seen within a single window. VistaPoint follows ISPF conventions and uses many of the same commands to scroll up or down in a view.

6. Shift to PLEX MANAGER by entering con * plexmgr;plex on the COMMAND line.
   The CONtext command lets you shift between BMC AMI Ops products. You will learn more about this command in Changing Products and Contexts.
   For the moment, look at the PLEX view. Notice the row count field shown at the far right of the window information line. There are 39 rows in this view, but only some of them can be seen from a single screen. You must scroll down to see the remaining rows.

    08NOV2000 7:14:17 ----------- INFORMATION DISPLAY ---------------------------
   COMMAND ===> SCROLL ===> PAGE
    CURR WIN ===> 1 ALT WIN ===>
   >W1 =PLEX==============MVSA=====*========08NOV2000====07:13:11====PLEXMGR======39
   C Product  Context  System   Description                              Status
   - -------- -------- -------- ---------------------------------------- -------
     MVBBI    TM35     SYSB     BBI/SS Service Point                     Active
      MVBBI    LNXP     SYSB     BBI/SS Service Point                     Active
      MVCICS   CICS3301 SYSB     CICS 3.3 REGION #1                       Active
      MVCICS   CICS3206 SYSB     CICS 3.2 REGION #1                       Active
      MVCICS   CICS3302 SYSB     CICS 3.3 REGION #2                       Active
      MVCICS   CICS4102 SYSB     CICS 4.1 REGION #1                       Active
      MVCICS   CMRXCAS  SYSB     TESTING CAS                              Active
      MVCICS   CMRGPAS  SYSB     CICS 3.2 REGION #1                       Active
      MVCICS   CICS3302 SYSB     CICS 3.3 REGION #2                       Active
      MVCICS   CICS2121 SYSB     CICS 2.1 REGION #1                       Active
      MVCICS   CICS4101 SYSB     CICS 4.1 REGION #1                       Active
      MVCICS   CICS3303 SYSB     CICS 3.3 REGION #3                       Active
      MVCICS   CICS3206 SYSB     CICS 3.2 REGION #1                       Active
      MVCICS   CICS4101 SYSB     CICS 4.1                                 Active
      MVCICS   CMRXPAS  SYSB     TESTING PAS                              Active
      MVCICS   CICS3301 SYSB     CICS 3.3 REGION #1                       Active
      MVCICS   CICS4102 SYSB     CICS 4.1 #2                              Active
      MVCICS   CICS3303 SYSB     CICS 3.3 REGION #3                       Active
7. Scroll down by pressing your designated scroll down key.
   You can control the scroll amount by changing the value shown in the SCROLL field.
8. Return to the first line entry by entering top on the COMMAND line.
   You should see the first line in the PLEX view. BMC AMI Ops follows ISPF convention, and offers you a variety of ways to move to the top or bottom of a view.
   VistaPoint gives you the capability to find specific line entries in views that extend beyond the visible boundaries of a window.
9. Enter Locate mvdb2 to find the first line listing an BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 context in the PLEX view.
   If your site has BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 installed, you should see the first context entry displayed at the top line of the view. The Locate command searches by the first data column at the left of a view.
10. Press your END key to return to the original APOVER view you started with in this section.
    Again, VistaPoint keeps a stack of views that you displayed in your current session. You can return to these views by pressing your END key.

Summary of Navigational Methods within a View

Up 

• BACKWARD or UP commands
• Designated scroll-up key (PF7/PF19 by default)
• placing h on the COMMAND line and pressing your designated scroll-up key to move half a page up
• placing p on the COMMAND line and pressing your designated scroll-up key to move a full page up

Down

• FORWARD or DOWN commands
• Designated scroll-down keys (PF8/PF20 by default)
• placing h in the COMMAND line and pressing your designated scroll-down key to move half a page down
• placing p in the COMMAND line and pressing your designated scroll-down key to move a full page down

Top

• TOP command
• placing m on the COMMAND line and pressing your designated scroll-up key to move to the top line entry of the view

Bottom

• BOTTOM command
• placing m on the COMMAND line and pressing your designated scroll-down key to move to the last line entry of the view

This section showed you some VistaPoint navigational fundamentals. In the next two sections, additional navigation methods are explained.