Table view features
The table view has features for refining the display to suit your needs. The table view features allow you to refine the display of your data. These features also apply to the message log and event console views.
- Column descriptions
- Descriptions of the attributes for which data is reported are displayed as hover help when you move the mouse pointer over a column heading.
- Column adjustments
- You
can make the following adjustments to columns:
Adjust column width by dragging a border left or right.
Lock a column by right-clicking in the column heading and selecting
Lock this Column.
The column and any columns to left are fixed in place as you scroll
the table left or right. To unlock, right-click a column heading
and select 
Unlock Table Columns. Change column order by dragging a column heading and dropping to insert it between two columns.
Column sort by clicking a column heading to sort the table by that column in ascending order, clicking again for descending, and again to go back to the original arrangement. You can also build a query that specifies a sort order, which is necessary for multiple-page tables if you want all the rows sorted and not just those in the current page.
Find- The Find function enables you to enter search criteria for the columns shown in the table.
- Threshold indicators
- Threshold cells have either a severity icon or
a colored background
to indicate values that meet the threshold criteria. A threshold
column heading has an indicator, such as
Minor, that you can click to sort the column by
the threshold value. If the column has multiple thresholds assigned,
the highest level indicator is displayed. When threshold cells do
not show in the viewable area, the scroll button is colored or has
a severity icon to show where to click to see them. - Link indicators
Link indicators appear to the left of a row if
the table has a link filtered by one or more row values. Click the indicator to open the default linked workspace or, if no
default link has been assigned, a list of available links. You can
also right-click the indicator to get a list of available links or
to open the link wizard to define a link.- Multiple pages
- Multiple pages, a page being 100 rows, are
indicated by
and 
buttons on the scroll bar.
A text box is displayed at the top of the table with “Page 1 of ”.
You can type another number to go to that page. Replace 1 with a
high number such as 99 and press Enter to go to the last page
and adjust the total number of pages displayed to the correct number.
Click
Edit Properties
in the view title bar to open the Properties editor, and change the Page
size in the Query tab. A smaller page size speeds up
data retrieval because only one page is retrieved at one time rather
than the entire row set. - Historical reporting
- As well as seeing real-time data in the table
view, you can
have Cloud Pak System Software
Monitoring Portal log the data into history files so you
can examine data over longer periods of time. The table view has
a
Time Span tool for setting a time period
to report. The table retains data from previous refreshes and appends
newly arrived data to the view.