Define schemes to change the order of columns in tables
When object data is displayed in IBM MQ Explorer in tables, we can customized the order of the columns in the tables.
For example, queues have a large number of attributes; when you display the contents of a Queues folder in the Content view, if we are not interested the creation date and time of the queues, we can choose not to display those attributes, or we can move those columns to somewhere else in the table.
The changes that you make are saved as schemes so that we can apply the same set of changes to the same type of objects on other queue managers too.
IBM MQ Explorer supplies and applies standard schemes. Because IBM MQ for z/OS for queue managers and objects can have slightly different attributes, each object scheme has settings for the object on Multiplatform queue managers and for z/OS queue managers. The standard schemes include all the attributes for objects of that type. For example, the Standard for Queues scheme includes all the attributes for queues on Multiplatforms and z/OS platforms so that we can be sure that we can see all the attributes for the queues that are listed.
To apply an existing scheme to a table:
- In the Content view, or dialog that contains the table, click the small arrow next to the current scheme name. A menu is displayed.
- From the menu, click Select Scheme The Select Scheme dialog opens.
- In the Select Scheme dialog, click the scheme that we want to apply. The attributes that the scheme will display are listed in the dialog.
- Click OK.
The selected scheme is applied to the folder of objects.
- Create a scheme
We can create schemes for most of the tables of data in IBM MQ Explorer.- Editing an existing scheme
We can edit any schemes that you created previously and we can also edit the schemes that are supplied with IBM MQ Explorer; for example, the Standard for Queues scheme. After modifying the layout of the status table, we can reset the width of the columns to their default values.- Copy an existing scheme
If there already exists a scheme that is similar to a scheme that we want to create, we can copy the existing scheme and then edit it as required.Parent topic: Configure IBM MQ Explorer Parent topic: Preferences for IBM MQ Explorer
Related tasks
- Create a scheme
- Editing an existing scheme
- Copy an existing scheme
- Filtering the objects displayed in tables