Displaying Parameter Settings

How to:

The ? SET command lists the parameter settings that control your Developer Studio and WebFOCUS environments. Your application sets default values for these parameters, but you can change them with the SET command.

SET parameters are described in Customizing Your Environment.
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Syntax: How to Display Parameter Settings
? SET [ALL|[FOR] parameter]

where:

ALL

Displays all possible parameter settings.

parameter

Is a SET parameter. This displays the setting for the specific parameter.

FOR

Includes where the parameter can be set from in addition to the parameter setting.
Example: Displaying Parameter Settings

Issuing the command 

? SET

produces information similar to the following: 

PARAMETER SETTINGS
ALL.                OFF    FOC2GIGDB            ON    PAUSE               OFF
ASNAMES           FOCUS    FOCALLOC            OFF    POOL                OFF
AUTOINDEX            ON    FOCCREATELOC        OFF    PRINT            ONLINE
AUTOPATH             ON    FOCSTACK SIZE         8    PRINTPLUS           OFF
BINS                 64    FOCTRANSFORM         ON    QUALCHAR              .
BLKCALC             NEW    FORMFEED          ASCII    QUALTITLES          OFF
BUSDAYS         _MTWTF_    HDAY                       REBUILDMSG         1000
BYPANELING          OFF    HIPERFOCUS          OFF    RECAP-COUNT         OFF
CACHE                 0    HOLDATTRS         FOCUS    SAVEMATRIX          OFF
CARTESIAN           OFF    HOLDLIST            ALL    SCREEN              OFF
CDN                 OFF    HOLDSTAT            OFF    SHADOW PAGE         OFF
COLUMNSCROLL        OFF    HOTMENU             OFF    SMARTMODE           OFF
DATEDISPLAY         OFF    IBMLE                ON    SPACES             AUTO
DATEFNS              ON    INDEX TYPE          NEW    SQLENGINE
DATETIME  STARTUP/RESET    LANGUAGE      AMENGLISH    SUMPREFIX           LST
DEFCENT              19    LINES/PAGE           66    TCPIPINT            OFF
DEFECHO             OFF    LINES/PRINT          57    TEMP DISK D:\ibi\srv7..
DUPLICATECOL         ON    MERGEOPT              Y    TERMINAL        IBM3270
EMPTYREPORT         OFF    MESSAGE              ON    TESTDATE          TODAY
EQTEST         WILDCARD    MODE              WINNT    TITLES               ON
EXCELRELEASE       2000    MORE                OFF    VIEWNAMESIZE         60
EXL2KLANG     AMENGLISH    MULTIPATH      COMPOUND    WIDTH               130
EXTAGGR              ON    NFOC                OFF    WINPFKEY            OLD
EXTHOLD              ON    NODATA                .    XFBINS     64 (passive)
EXTRACT             OFF    ONFIELD             ALL    XFC                  ON
EXTSORT             OFF    PAGE-NUM             ON    XRETRIEVAL           ON
FIELDNAME           NEW    PANEL                 0    YRTHRESH              0

Some parameters are listed differently from the way you specify them in the SET command. These include:

SET Parameters

Description

FOCSTACK SIZE

Is the same as the FOCSTACK parameter.

INDEX TYPE

Is the same as the INDEX parameter.

LINES/PAGE

Is the same as the PAPER parameter.

LINES/PRINT

Is the same as the LINES parameter.

SHADOW PAGES

Is the same as the SHADOW parameter.
Example: Displaying a Single Parameter Setting

Issuing the command 

? SET ONLINE-FMT

produces the following if the parameter is set to its default value:

ONLINE-FMT             HTML
Example: Displaying Where a Parameter Can Be Set

Issuing the command 

? SET FOR EXTSORT

produces the following information:

EXTSORT                   ON
 
 ------------------------------------------------- 
 SETTABLE FROM COMMAND LINE                  :  YES
 SETTABLE ON TABLE                           :  YES
 SETTABLE FROM SYSTEM-WIDE PROFILE           :  YES
 SETTABLE FROM HLI PROFILE                   :  YES
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