Defining and activating filters

On the Interact with Promoted Groups panel, you can use the PF6 key to define and set display filters for this panel. Display filters provide the ability to display only those groups or data sets that match your filter criteria. This option is useful in environments where there might be numerous groups and data sets defined.

Procedure

Complete the following steps to define and activate display filters for the Interact with Promoted Groups panel:

  1. Press PF6 on the Interact with Promoted Groups panel to display the Specify Filters panel.
    Figure 1. Specify Filters panel
  2. Enter filter criteria for groups and data sets. You can use the wildcard character (*) to filter multiple groups or data sets that match a specific criterion. If you enter only a group filter criteria, only group and their data sets that match your filter are displayed on the Interact with Promoted Groups panel.

    Similarly, if you enter only data set filter criteria, only those groups that contain data sets that match your criteria are displayed. If you enter filter criteria for both groups and data sets, only groups that match your group filter definitions, and groups that contain data sets matching your data set filter definitions are displayed.

  3. Press PF5 to save your filters.
  4. Press PF3 to exit the Specify Filters panel.
  5. On the Interact with Promoted Groups panel, press PF10 to turn on the filtering option.
    Only groups and data sets that match your filter definitions are displayed.
    Note: Use PF10 again to disable filters.

Examples

In Figure 1, a group filter was defined to display only groups that begin with T.

The results are displayed in Figure 2:

Figure 2. Example 1: Filtering Active

In this example, two groups match the filter criteria, therefore, only these groups are displayed on the Interact with Promoted Groups panel.

In Figure 3, a data set filter was defined to display only those groups that contain data sets that begin with the SXM string:

Figure 3. Example 2: Data set filter for SXM string

If Show Source Data Set Name and Show Target Data Set Name were set to Y when the filter was done, one group is displayed, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4. Results of data set filter for SXM string