Using an * to get a list

Notice the * at the beginning of each of the input fields on the previous panel. You can think of the word all when you see * in a field, because all possible entries are listed. Don't press the Enter key now, but if you did, you would see a full list of every name in your installation's names directory.

You can restrict a list of items by typing information over the *. If you enter the name Marvin in the FIRST OR NICKNAME field and leave * in all other fields, you see a panel with a list of people in the directory named Marvin. For example, you might see:

Marvin Abrams
Marvin Long
Marvin Scott

Another way to restrict the list is to type partial information in a field followed by *. If you typed s* in the LAST NAME field and mar* in the FIRST OR NICKNAME field and left * in all other fields, you would see a panel with a list of people whose first name begins with ‘mar’ and whose last name begins with ‘s’.

Marianne Sawyer
Marvin Scott
Mary Sergio

In some cases, when you type a word in a field that accepts * and you don't add *, the system adds it. For example if you type green in the LAST NAME field, the system automatically adds * at the end. As a result, you might see a list with last names:

Greene, Greener, Greenfield, Greenly

Exercise
Display the Names – Name Identification panel. Enter `G` in the LAST NAME field. If your administration has set up a system-wide names directory, a list of names starting with G appears on the Names – List of Names panel.

The panel you see after entering the letter G is a list panel and might look something like the following:

                            NAMES - LIST OF NAMES
COMMAND ===>                                                  SCROLL ===> PAGE

To view, V, modify, M, delete, D, a name, or copy, C, to the
master directory, type the letter to the left of the selected name.
To add a name, type A on the COMMAND line.
">" beside a name indicates that it is in your private directory.

    LAST NAME            FIRST NAME      PHONE             USER ID  SYSTEM
    Gates                Doris             266-4387        DORAG    COMP1
     MGR                    DeptC
    Ginsberg             John              266-6795        JEG1     COMP1
                            DeptE
   >Graham               David             266-6332        DWG      COMP1
     MGR                    DeptA
    Greeley              Mary                              GREELEY  COMP1
                            DeptW
*********************************** END OF LIST ******************************

List panels display a number of items with action fields, in this case, a single underscore to the left of each item. The action codes you can type in those fields, such as V (to view the directory entry) and M (to modify it), are given in the directions on the panel.