Writer instructions

Purpose

Use this page to display a banner announcement on each page of the space. Create the Space announcements page in the master space, outside of the Home branch.

You can version the Space announcements page to enable different banners to be published into different target spaces, however, the banner that is displayed in the versioned (master) space itself only displays the most recently-published banner.  If you find errors in the banner area of your versioned space and you are sure the Space announcements page is set up correctly, try publishing the page to the same space.

For more information, see Space-announcements-banners.

Removing

When an announcement is no longer needed, remove the BMC Space Banner macro.

Translation

Localized spaces using the L10n Viewport theme must change the name of this page to Space announcements l10n.  See Configuring-the-Scroll-ViewPort-theme-for-translated-spaces.

Usage

Choose one or none of the following BMC Space Banner macros.

If your space requires another kind of announcement, you can use this page in coordination with your team lead and editors.

When should I use a space announcement banner?

Use the space organization announcement after you change the content from a book-like organization (such as User Manual, Configuration Manual, and Administration Guide) to the product model.

Use the latest version announcement to push traffic to later versions. You do not need to add this to every previous version, but if you have a specific reason that you want users to be aware—for example, Google searches show content for an obsolete version—use the banner to help users find a relevant version.

When an announcement is no longer needed, remove the BMC Space Banner macro.

Space announcement This documentation space provides the same content as before, but the organization of the content has changed. The content is now organized based on logical branches instead of legacy book titles. We hope that the new structure will help you quickly find the content that you need.

Print Table Data or Audit Trail function

This section describes how to use Option 5, Print Table Data or Audit Trail. It explains how you can use selection criteria to select the table data to be printed. This allows you to tailor your reports to your specific needs and have them printed in either table or row mode. Sample reports appear in Example Row Mode Table Data Print to Dataset and Example Table Mode Table Data Print to Database.

This chapter also describes how an audit trail report is printed in File-AID for Db2. An audit trail report contains a record of all successful modifications (inserts, deletes, updates, commits and rollbacks) to Db2 table data during a File-AID for Db2 edit session. A sample report appears in Example Audit Trail Report. For information on producing an audit trail dataset, see Creating-an-Audit-Trail-Dataset.

Important

If your installation chose the SMF audit trail option, see Configuring BMC Compuware File-AID for Db2 for printing instructions.

Printing Unicode Data

The Print function supports printing of Unicode table data. File-AID for Db2 retrieves the native Unicode data from Db2 and then, internally calls the IBM z/OS Conversion Services program, CUNLCNV, to convert data from Unicode to CCSID EBCDIC-based data. The EBCDIC CCSID is a parameter in the Batch Print JCL, and it comes from terminal CCSID when the JCL is generated. The Configuration default variable, CCSID, is used as default, if the EBCDIC CCSID is not specified in the Print parameters. If the converted EBCDIC data exceeds the original Unicode data length, File-AID for Db2 prints “>>>>>>” characters to indicate where the EBCDIC data exceeds the Unicode data length.

For variable column data, the print data area for the column is the longest size of the actual data in the print target rows. It is not the defined column length.

EBCDIC Tables With UNICODE Columns

Db2 Version 11 EBCDIC tables with individually defined UNICODE columns are supported in Print. UNICODE columns in EBCDIC tables display like UNICODE columns in UNICODE tables.

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