User Preferences

User preferences are saved individually for each user connected to the interface in the directory:

• On Windows:

  C:\<Windows user>\univiewer_console\<UVMS host port>\<login name>

• On Linux:

  $HOME/univiewer_console/<UVMS host port>/<login name>

To update a parameter: Select the line and click Update or double-click the value. In the list, select the new value or enter it. Click Save.

To restore the settings’ default values set at installation and erase all updates made by the user, click Restore defaults.

General Settings

Language

• Application Language

  This defines the interface language. English (en) and French (fr) are currently available.

Date Format

• Date Format , Time Format

  The user can change the display format of date and time throughout the interface.

• Reference Time

  DUAS only. The user can choose one of two displaying modes for the Job Runs. The value for the reference time can be set to MU Time or Dollar Universe Reference Time. If MU Time is selected (DU only), times displayed in monitoring documents will be offset by the values defined in the MU table. Refer to the section "Timezone".

  • Dollar Universe Reference time: Check this option to display the Application Server time.
  • MU time: Check this option to display the Management Unit time.

  The time selection function determines only whether Server time or MU time will be displayed on the Job Runs document. In all cases, if offsets are set in the MU, they will be used by the calculator.

• First Day of Week

  Select the first day of the week used to calculate the scheduling dates.

Alerting Dashboard

• Open Alert Dashboard on startup

  Enter Yes to display the Dashboard when the user connects to UVC.

UVMS Dashboard

These preferences apply to the server’s monitoring dashboard, accessible in the Administration mode, Monitoring and Audit section > UVMS Server Monitoring.

• Recording Window

  This setting can assume the following values: 1 day, 2 days or 1 week. This is the amount of time during which records are kept. Further, they are deleted when the Univiewer Console is shut down.

• Refresh Rate

  This setting can assume the following values: 15 or 30 seconds, 1 or 2 minutes. It shows the data’s refresh cycle.

• Chart Display Window

  This setting can assume the following values: 10, 30, 60 minutes or 2 hours. It shows the amount of time the data is displayed. Data saved but not displayed can be extracted and saved to the CSV format.

Cron Import

• Display already imported

  • If Yes is selected, Jobs that have already been imported are displayed in the "UniJob – Cron Import" wizard.
  • If No is selected (by default), Jobs that have already been imported are not displayed in the "UniJob – Cron Import" wizard.

• Display Crontab comments

  • If Yes is selected, the comments and blank lines are displayed in the "UniJob – Cron Import" wizard.
  • If No is selected (by default), comments and blank lines are not displayed in the "UniJob – Cron Import" wizard.

External Applications

• Default Text Editor

  The default text editor can be altered. Installation values are:

  • Windows: notepad.exe !FILE!
  • LINUX: xterm -e 'vi !FILE!'

  The substitution token !FILE ! is necessary to pass the name of the file to be edited.

  Example

  To change the text editor to Notepad++ on Windows enter:

  C:\Program Files\Notepad++\Notepad++.exe "!FILE!"

Breadcrumb

• Enable Breadcrumb

  Set to Yes (by default) to display the breadcrumbs. You can set it to No to hide the breadcrumbs.

Job Monitoring

• Job Run Default Time Filter > Day Filter Value

  You can change the default filter applied in the UniJob Job Runs document to restrict the amount of data presented to the user and avoid overloading the monitoring document.

  This value defines the Start date in the Job Runs document. The filter is applied when the document is opened.

  The default value is 1 day. To modify the default filter select the line and click Update or double click on the value. Enter the new value and click Save.

  Click Restore Defaults to restore Univiewer default values.

• Job Run Default Status Filter

  Displays the default Job statuses selected in the Job Runs document filter.

• Status Order

  Displays the status order to calculate the status of the consolidated lines in the Job Runs document.

  To change this order, select a line, right-click and chose the Priority Up or Priority Down option to move the status up or down.

Context

• Deactivate value helps auto-completion

  No by default. When you enter the first letter(s) of an object name in a selection field and then click the arrow next to the field, the list displayed is automatically filtered. But if the list contains many objects, it may take some time to display it. In that case, set this preference to Yes to disable the auto-completion feature. Refer to section "Value Helps".

• Ask confirmation when number of nodes exceeds

  Enter the number of nodes beyond which the interface will ask for confirmation before displaying the data concerned. 25 by default.

• Show monitoring Context Chooser

  Yes by default. Displays the context selection in Monitoring mode. Displays the selection tool above Monitoring mode, (as in Design mode) in order to open documents in production in a predefined environment.

Status Colors

• To change a color in one of the categories below:

  • Select the line and click Update or double click on the value.
  • In the Color Chooser window, select the color using one of the three tabs.
  • Click OK to validate the choice, Cancel to abandon the function or Reset to display the previously saved color.
  • Click Save.

• Job Runs Colors

  This list displays all the possible Job Run status names (on UniJob Nodes and Dollar Universe Nodes) and their associated color.

  • Aborted
  • Canceled
  • Completed
  • Completion in progress
  • Disabled
  • Event wait
  • Launch wait
  • Pending
  • Refused
  • Running
  • Simulated
  • Started
  • Time overrun

• Jobs

  This list displays the possible UniJob Job status names and their associated colors.

  • Simulated
  • Disabled
  • Enabled
  • In error

• Job Events

  This list displays the Dollar Universe event status names and their associated colors.

  • Aborted
  • Completed
  • Pending
  • Running
  • Started

• Day Type

  This list displays the names of days in the Calendars or in the Patterns used to schedule Jobs.

  • Icon Border
  • Authorized Day
  • Closing Day
  • Excluded Day
  • Fiscal Month
  • Fiscal Quarter
  • Fiscal Year
  • Holiday
  • Manually Modified
  • Special day

• Trigger History

  This list displays the Dollar Universe trigger status names and their associated colors:

  • Completed: The task is run
  • Incomplete: An error occurs during the processing of the trigger in Dollar Universe
  • Failed: An error occurs when receiving the event or the event properties

Dollar Universe Default Settings

User Default Settings

This sets the default values proposed for access to development and production areas when creating a new Dollar Universe user. Refer to section: "V5 User Accounts".

Possible values: Yes or No.

Node Default Settings

This sets the default values proposed for development and production areas when creating a new Dollar Universe Node. Refer to section: "V5 Nodes".

Possible values: Yes or No.

Uproc Default Settings

This sets default values concerning the creation of Uprocs. Refer to section: "Uprocs".

• Account condition

  In dependency or non-simultaneity conditions, events can use specific submission accounts; possible values “Any” or “Same”.

• Conditioning status

  Conditions can use status; possible values are “Completed”, “Aborted”, 'Ended" or “Absent”.

• Date condition

  Conditions can use processing dates; possible values are “Same”, “Specific” or “Offset”.

• Functional period

  Governs the calculation of the Processing Date; possible values are “none”, “day”, “10 days”, “2 weeks”, “month”,” 2 months”, “3 months”, “4 months”, ”6 months” and “year”.

• Memorization

  Determines how many events are retained; possible values are “One”, “None” or “All”.

• Management Unit condition

  Uses Management Units; possible values are “Same Mgt Unit”, “Specific Mgt Unit”, “Mgt Unit Type” or an HDP expression.

• Session condition

  Uses Sessions; possible values are “Any”, “Same Session”, “Same Session and Execution” or a “Specific Session”.

Task Default Settings

This sets default values concerning the creation of Tasks. Refer to section: "Tasks".

• Task Active

  Determines whether Tasks are created active; possible values are Yes or No.

• Forced Run

  Determines whether Tasks should be forced to run if prerequisite conditions are not satisfied at the end of the launch window; possible values are Yes or No.

• Central Monitoring

  (DUAS V5 only) If yes, job status will be sent to the central monitoring Node; possible values Yes or No (only used for mono-Node job monitors).

• Automatic Restart

  (DUAS V5 only) Determines if jobs will be automatically resubmitted after a crash; possible values Yes or No.

• Task Priority

  Sets submission priority in a batch queue; possible values are 1 – 255.

• Launch From

  Sets the default launch time and duration.

• Task Nature

  Determines whether Tasks are created as templates or not.

• Task Type

  Determines the default Task type. Possible values are: Cyclical, Scheduled, Provoked or Watching.

Calendar Default Settings

This sets default values concerning the creation of Calendars. Refer to section: "Calendars".

From Monday to Sunday, possible values are Working, Closed or Holiday.

Rule Default Settings

This sets default values concerning the creation of scheduling rules. Refer to section: "Rules".

• Period duration

  The number of units of the scheduling period.

• Period duration unit

  The units used to calculate the length of the period; possible values are day, week or month.

• Position in Period

  The number of days from the start of the period.

• Offset to

  The offset direction.

Resource Default Settings

This sets default values concerning the creation of resources. Refer to section: "Resources".

• Quota 1, Quota 2

  The default number of units attributed to Quota 1 / Quota 2 of a logical resource.

• Scan cycle (seconds)

  The Supervisor engine’s default scan cycle.

• Access

  Determines whether default access to resources is shared or exclusive.

• De-allocation

  Resources can be de-allocated automatically at the end of the Uproc that consumes them or they can be de-allocated by command at a later moment.

Management Unit Default Settings

This sets default values concerning the creation of resources. Refer to section: "Management Units".

Possible values: Yes or No.

Launch Default Settings

This sets default values concerning the creation of resources. Refer to section: "Job Runs".

• Automatic Restart

  (DUAS V5 only) Determines if launches will be automatically resubmitted after a crash; possible values are Yes or No.

• Central Monitoring

  (DUAS V5 only) If yes, job status will be sent to the central monitoring Node; possible values are Yes or No (only used for mono-Node job monitors).

• Forced Launch

  Determines whether Tasks should be forced to run if pre-requisite conditions are not satisfied at the end of the launch window; possible values are Yes or No.

• Task Priority

  Sets submission priority in a batch queue; possible values are 1 – 255.

• Except

  Defines default exclusion window.

• Launch in Window

  Defines default launch window.

• Launch Now For

  Sets launch window duration for immediate launches

• Launch Type

  Possible values are "now" or "in window".

SAP Manager Default Settings

• Default MU for SAP Manager

  “*” by default.

• SAP XBP2 Default Language

  Possible values are EN or FR

UniJob Default Settings

This category groups default values used when creating UniJob objects.

Refer to the UniJob User Guide for Univiewer for additional information.