Dynamic selection lists

This topic describes the new dynamic selection lists feature of the CICSPlex® SM Web User Interface (WUI).

The WUI is now capable of generating dynamic selection lists in a similar way to the TSO EUI. Fields capable of generating a selection list, are marked with the icon Selections for fieldname where fieldname is the label of the input box.to the right of the text input box. For resource input fields, clicking the icon opens a screen like this:
Figure 1. Resource selection list screenValid values are displayed on the screen in tabular form, and the selection mechanism used is a radio button group.  The screen contains four columns: the first contains the resource name, the second contains a 30 character description, the third  gives the resource type of the attribute and the final column gives the status of the resource

The valid values are displayed on the screen in tabular form sorted by resource type. To make a selection from the list you just select a radio button and click OK.

Selection list screens include an entry field containing the value currently being used to filter the list. To use a new filter, type a new value in the entry field and click Refresh.

Only attributes and parameters in entry fields in task guides, tabular and detail views are capable of generating selection lists. Filters and context and scope fields are not able to generate selection lists.

The selection list screen for metadata attributes requests show all, or a filtered subset, of the attributes for a base table sorted by attribute name. They are used mainly for evaluation definition creation.

You can reduce the number of values displayed in a selection list by specifying filter values. These filters differ from filters as they normally occur in the WUI because they use only the = (equals) operator. You can type a generic value as the value for the attribute using the wildcard symbols *(asterisk) and + (plus sign) in the usual way, for example, DW*. On a selection list screen you can then alter the values displayed in the list by modifying the filter value that appears in the box at the top of the screen.
Note: If you type in a value that does not contain generic characters, this value is still used as the filter regardless of whether any values will be displayed in the selection list. This differs from the current EUI behavior, which would produce a list of all available values if no values are produced when it is supplied with an attribute that does not contain wild cards.