Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
| Search for | Example | Results |
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
| Search for | Operator | Example |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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- Database parameters
- alignradsensitivitywithdb
- allowunsupporteddbversion
- [db2universal]
- [db2universal_replicate]
- dbcachequery
- generateIndexDDL
- [oracle]
- [oracle_replicate]
- [sqlserver]
- [sqlserver_replicate]
- sqladhoccachesize
- sqlalwayson
- sqlautosort
- sqlbatchcount
- sqldb
- sqlddldirectory
- sqlddllogging
- sqldebug
- sqldictionary
- sqldictkey
- sqldicttable
- sqldirect
- sqldisconnect
- sqlfetchrows
- sqlfetchs
- sqljoinsok
- sqllibrary
- sqllimit
- sqllockretry
- sqllockwait
- sqllogin
- sqlloginretry
- sqlloginwait
- sqlnullclause
- sqlouterjoins
- sqlreuseablesql
- sqlstats
- sqltextdateformat
- sql_oracle_binary_ci
- sqltz
- sqlupper
- system_addconstraint
- system_createupperindex
- util
- wildcardcharacters
Parameter: wildcardcharacters
Startup parameters change the behavior of the Service Manager server. You can always set a startup parameter from the server's operating system command prompt.
Parameter
wildcardcharacters
Description
This parameter defines the wildcard characters you want the Service Manager server to use during searches.
Valid if set from
Server's operating system command prompt
Initialization (sm.ini) file
Requires restart of the Service Manager server?
No
Default value
*?\
where * defines the place holder for any 0 to N characters
where ? defines the place holder for any one character
where \ defines the escape character to search literally for any of the wildcard characters
Possible values
These characters are only used in queries using the LIKE operator. For example: "*al?n*" matches "alen"
These characters are not used when using the = or # operator. For example:
- name="*al?n*" would only match "*al?n*"
- name#"*al?n*" would match "*al?n*" and "*al?n*e" [starts with]
Note When Service Manager generates a query from what is typed on the search screen, the data is scanned for these characters and if found, a LIKE operator is generated automatically instead of the default "starts with" (#) operator.
Some wildcard character search examples are listed below:
- Wildcard character "*" to search for any number of characters. For example: "*ev*" would match "kevin" but not "kendel"
- Wildcard character "?" to search for a single character. For example, "l?n" would match "alen" and "alan" but not "alain"
- Wildcard character "\" to search for text containing special or wildcard characters. For example: "Help\?" would match "Help?" but not "Help!"
Example usage
Command line: sm -listener -wildcardcharacters:%?/
Initialization file: wildcardcharacters:%?/
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