Summarizing a Display

Sometimes, data requests can result in many lines, possibly hundreds of lines, of information spread over a number of display pages. The amount of data displayed can be summarized using any field that has been defined as a summarizing field. Summarizing fields are defined when the view is created using the View Editor. For example, on the LOCTRAN view, the Tran ID and Enabled status fields might be used for summarizing the data. There is no limit to the number of fields you can specify for summarizing the data in a view.

Fields that can be used for summarizing data have a Summarize icon, , at the top of the column. Click the icon and the information for each item is amalgamated and a summarized view is displayed.

A summarized view is a special form of the tabular view, comprising one line for each value of the chosen field that occurs in the current tabular view. The Record count column on the summary view indicates the number of records from the preceding tabular view combined to form the line of summarized information.

The way the information is summarized depends upon the type of data in each column:

• For character fields, the summarized data provides those characters that are common to all underlying records and displays an asterisk (*) for those that are not common. For example, a character field such as the Transaction ID (Tran Id) field on the summary view for LOCTRAN objects might contain summarized values C*, DS**, ABCD, or ****.
• For CVDA and EYUDA values, the value is displayed if there is a common value for all the records making up the summarized line. Otherwise, N_A or N_a is displayed to indicate the values were different.
• For numeric and hexadecimal fields, the data is handled as specified for the field in the CICSPlex SM Resource Tables Reference.

You can perform actions on all the items in a summary line by checking the check box next to the record number in the left-hand Record column.

You can use only one field at a time to summarize data. To summarize the same data using another field, click the Go back icon, , to return to the tabular display you were using, and click the summarize icon of the other field.

To return to the full display, click on the Go Back icon, .

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