The Personal Options dialog allows you to customize Optim™ for the workstation.
Tabs
The tabs
in the Personal Options dialog are described briefly in the following
paragraphs. Detailed information is provided in each section of this
chapter.
- General
- Identify the Temporary Work Directory, Data Directory,
and the directory for the Product Configuration File used by the workstation.
Options allow you to use the underscore as an SQL LIKE character,
select the upper-case or lower-case default for selection criteria,
establish the number of days to keep Trace Files, and specify a default
code page value.
- Confirm
- Choose to display a confirmation prompt before definitions
are deleted, files overwritten, or DDL lost.
- Display
- Choose options for data displays when editing data
or using Point and Shoot, including the maximum number of rows fetched
and the maximum number of entries in history and menu file lists.
Also, set options to determine the default settings for Large Objects
for the Access Definition.
- Errors
- Select font characteristics for informational, warning,
and error messages and the number of lines to display in the message
bar.
- Scheduling
- Select options for using the Scheduling Monitor.
- Load
- Provide the complete path and name of the executable
used to access each DBMS loader.
- Create
- Specify default options for creating database objects.
- Logon
- Review logon information for each DB Alias in a
selected Optim Directory. Connection
and password information is stored in the workstation registry.
- Server
- Provide User ID, password, and domain information
to be used by the Optim Server
(Server) when running actions remotely.
- Edit
- Select options for browsing or editing database
tables.
- Browse
- Select display options for browsing Archive, Extract,
Control, or Compare Files. Set defaults for emphasizing differences
between rows when browsing Compare Files.
- Archive
- Identify the default Archive Directory and Archive
Index Directory and select options that apply when archiving data.
- Removable Media
- Provide default segment size values.
- Actions
- Set options for displaying tabs in Action Request
Editors, printing Column Map procedures, and retaining reports.
- Printer
- Set printer, font, and language preferences for
printing a request or definition.
- Database
- Select options for handling multi-byte round trip
conversion errors, cascade deletes, and database connections. (For
Sybase ASE, you can also specify whether to run in Unchained mode.)
- Notify
- Specify default options and a list of addresses
used for sending an email message when a request is processed, or
only if a request succeeds or fails.