NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) Operator's Guide

Browsing Through Another Activity Log File
Examining the Activity Log
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Defining the Region to Be Searched
You can limit the search to a specific area of the activity log by assigning beginning
and ending labels, FSTART and FEND, to define the region you wish to be searched.
This region must be within a date boundary.
By default, the top of the displayed day’s activity log is assigned the label FSTART,
and the end of the displayed day’s activity log is assigned the label FEND.
When you begin a search, the search starts at the record at the top of the currently
displayed screen or at the record at which the cursor is positioned. The implicit
FSTART label is redefined to this position if it is earlier in the log than the current
FSTART label. Normally, the current FSTART label marks the top of the day’s log,
and redefinition cannot occur. However, if you have previously used the FSTART
command to reposition the FSTART label to somewhere within the day’s log, then
redefinition may occur.
The search continues forward or backward across date boundaries, pausing every nn
records according to the SCANMAX value, until the end or the top of the activity log
is reached. As the search crosses a date boundary, the FSTART and the FEND labels
are repositioned to the new day’s log.
If the end of the activity log is reached, press the F5 (PF05) function key to resume the
search at the FSTART position: that is, at the start of the last day’s log.
If PREV is specified in the FIND command and the top of the activity log is reached,
the search does not wrap around again.
You can explicitly assign FSTART and FEND labels to any records in a day’s log to
define new upper and lower boundaries for the search within the day.
When you assign your own FSTART and FEND labels, a forward search continues
until the FEND position is reached. You can press the F5 (PF05) function key to
resume the search at the FSTART position. A backward search continues searching to
the top of the activity log. The positions of these labels are reset as the search crosses a
date boundary.
Browsing Through Another
Activity Log File
By default, when you enter the Activity Log Browse facility, the contents of the current
IN USE activity log file are displayed. Within the Activity Log Browse facility, you can
issue a SWAP command to select another activity log file to be browsed.
The syntax for the SWAP command is as follows:
S[WAP] { LOGFILE n | udb-id }
where n is the number of an earlier activity log you wish to browse and udb-id is
the identifier of an archived or remote activity log file that you have opened using
the NonStop NET/MASTER MS UDBCTL OPEN command.