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Administrator Search Clients

Administrator search clients are for the exclusive use of

MDM Registry Edition

System Administrators. They provide a rich set of features used to test and tune search strategies.

MDM Registry Edition

provides two administrator search clients:

A default search client that contains facilities to expand records and save history and to start a new search using the previous search results. However it does not work with multi-byte character sets or UNICODE data.

A Lite client that supports multi-byte and UNICODE data. It also contains facilities to trace client side search data. This is particularly useful when debugging searches containing multi-byte data.

Starting from the Console

You can start the Administrator Search Client from the

MDM Registry Edition

Console Client by selecting

Tools

Search Client

Starting from a Shortcut

On windows, select

Search Client

from the

Informatica

program group.

Starting from the Command Line

To start the Administrator Search Client from the command line, run the following command:

On Windows:

%SSABIN%\ssasc [-h<Host>:<Port>] [-s<Search>] [-w<WorkDir>] [-p<System>]
 [-r<Rulebase>]

ON UNIX:

$SSABIN/ssasc [-h<Host>:<Port>] [-s<Search>] [-w<WorkDir>] [-p<System>] [-r<Rulebase>]

Configure the following parameters:

-h<Host>:<Port>: Name of the host and the port number of the Connection Server.
-s<Search>: Name of the search.
-w<WorkDir>: Absolute path for the working directory.
-p<System>: Name of the system.
-r<Rulebase>: Rulebase connection string.

The scripts also use environment variables to set some parameters. You can alternatively set the following parameters through environment variables:

RulebaseName: Name of the Rulebase. Specify the SSA_RBNAME environment variable.
ConnectionServer: Name of the host and port number for the Connection Server. Specify the SSA_COHOST environment variable.
WorkDirectory: Specify the SSAWORKDIR environment variable.

Client INI file

Some parameters for the client can be set using an INI file called

idsclie.ini

The following parameters are specified on the command line in the client starting script

ssasc

ADDRESS

PORT

SYSTEM

RULEDB

WORKDIR

. Unless these parameters are not removed from the script the corresponding settings in the INI file are ignored.

The following parameters are common to both clients:
RULEDB= the Rulebase (default 0:system/manager).
ADDRESS= the Host name of the MDM-RE Connection Server.
PORT= the Host port of the MDM-RE Connection Server.
SEARCH= the initial Search to open (optional)
SYSTEM= the name of the System to open (default is "test").

The following parameters are for the default Search Client:
SIZE= the initial size of the window (default 1100x820)
FONT= the initial font of the tables (default Courier).
FONTSIZE= the initial font size of the table (default 12).
DIV_LOCATION= the location of the divider between the history pane and the current pane of a search (default 0.5).
REFRESH_RATE= the number of records which will be loaded before the screen is refreshed (default is 2).
OUI_VERBOSITY= the verbosity of an OpenUser call.

If an

ADDRESS

is not specified the MDM-RE Client will display a dialog box to obtain the Host Name of the MDM-RE Search Server. Similarly if a Search is not specified the Client will start without opening any MDM-RE-ID Tables.

If any of the text which follows the = character in each line of the INI file contains certain characters, then those characters must be preceded by a \ (backslash) character. These characters are:

#(hash)

!(exclamation)

=(equals)

:(colon)

\(backslash)

For example, to specify a Rulebase whose name is

odb:0:SSA12/SSA12@SSA19

the

idsclie.ini

file should contain this line:

RULEDB=odb\:0\:SSA12/SSA12@SSA19

Client Selection INI file

When the Administrator Search Client first starts, a dialog is presented that allows the user to select between these two clients. The choice is stored in the client selection INI file’s (

adminsc.ini

)

SMODE

parameter. The mode may be switched using

Options

Search Client Selection

menu on the

Default

client and through the

Client Selection

button on the

Lite