12.1 Web Viewer - Selection criteria - the * character in report selection !
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Issue/Introduction
It seems an * is required at the end of every selection criteria in order to get expected results. This is confusing for some users.
If I want to see all TEXT#X999 reports - I would expect that if I enter "TEXT#X999" in criteria -- this would give me expected results --- but it seems I have to enter "TEXT*X999*"
Please explain exactly how the report selection criteria fields work.
Environment
Release : 12.1
Component : CA OUTPUT MANAGEMENT WEB VIEWER FOR ALL PLATFORMS
Resolution
Additional Information
Web Viewer/CA View supports the 3 search standards of text* *tex* or *xt, but not t*t. From the question posed, it's save to assume that CA View does support the latter; the advised solution would be *x*. When getting into the middle characters, there are many search engines that use ? (question marks) or *, and at one time, the type of "Mainframe C" programming language used in Web Viewer/CA View, did support the question marks. However, when they were converted to IBM C, the search times against the View database were very slow for leading asterisks, because in order to return the results every report had to be compared. That is why for leading asterisks from Web Viewer, the opportunity to choose, by Repository whether to disallow the leading asterisk or give a warning that the results may be slow in coming, along with not allowing leading asterisks at all, is provided.. Unfortunately with the IBM C functions, the placement of a wildcard in the middle of a Report ID, will cause CA View to have to read through all of the results many times over in order to return the reports list - that is why it is not supported. When there is a very large number of Reports involved, the time to get the response is unacceptable.
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