User Settings field descriptions – meshIQ

Some of the content described in this article is available in meshIQ Manage versions 11.1.1 and greater. See meshIQ platform Highlights v11.1 for an overview of feature changes.

This article describes the user settings that are available at both the individual user and the global levels.

User settings override global settings. If a user wants to restore their own settings to the default global settings, simply click the Restore Default button located at the bottom of the screen.

When a new user is added to the system, they will automatically have the global settings created by the admin. If the user updates their settings, the updates will override the global settings they initially had.

User Settings
Name	Description
Refresh interval (sec.)	Automatically refreshes the displayed information at the specified interval (in seconds).
Show inactive channels	Select to show all inactive channels in the tree.
Show empty queues	Display all queues that have a current depth equal to zero. Applies to IBM MQ and TIBCO EMS. This option is not enabled by default.
Show empty Kafka topics	Display Kafka topics that have a current depth equal to zero.
Show temporary dynamic queues	Select to display temporary dynamic queues.
Show full names for favorites shortcuts	Displays entire object path names on the Favorites tab.
Show full names for search results objects	Displays entire object path names for all search results.
Show SYSTEM objects	Select to show SYSTEM objects (objects that begin with SYSTEM or NASTEL).
Show objects search results from active queue managers only	Select to only search active queue managers. If off, all objects are shown, even from queue managers that are not currently active (will produce duplicates of the same object). This option is selected by default.
Show Manager for default schemas	By default, the Manager Name is the second viewlet column displayed. Uncheck this setting to remove the Manager Name column.
Show advanced viewlet filtering	Shows applicable advanced attribute filtering options at the top of search viewlets, so that you can adjust them more easily. Options shown are relevant to the object type (queues, channels, listeners, EMS routes, and so on). Advanced filter options can include settings from the viewlet properties such as Node, Manager, Object, queue Type, Attribute filters, and Message Search criteria. They can also include the user and global settings checkboxes Show empty queues and Show SYSTEM objects (labeled Empty and System, respectively). This setting applies to viewlets for IBM MQ, EMS, Kafka, and IIB products, including temporary viewlets. It does not apply to favorites viewlets, external viewlets, or system-generated viewlets in the Workspace dashboard. To learn more about advanced attribute filtering for a specific viewlet, see Filtering objects in a viewlet.
Show Viewlet’s Product’s Color	Applies the product color settings from the Colors tab of the Settings window to the IBM MQ, EMS, Kafka, IIB, and ACE product viewlets. By default, a gradient is used, unless the Flat Color checkbox has been selected on the Color tab.
Automatically update viewlet data on refresh	When this setting is enabled, and another user updates the properties of a viewlet on a dashboard that you have open, the viewlet is updated automatically the next time its data is refreshed. This also holds true if you updated the viewlet yourself, from another computer. If this setting is not enabled, the viewlet information is not updated automatically; instead, the application will inform you of the pending synchronization.
Show log out window	When this option is selected, users receive a confirmation message after they click the Logout button on the toolbar. Users can click Yes to log out or Cancel to leave it open. A Remember this option checkbox is available to prevent future prompts; but clearing this setting has the same effect; the user is automatically logged out, bypassing the confirmation message.
Collapse all viewlets on login	You can choose to display all viewlets as collapsed at login. This option can be set at the global or user level. If you do not have this option enabled, then the next time you log in, viewlets will revert to their previous state. Note that Workspace dashboard viewlets are not subject to this setting.
Show Color For WGS Connection In Viewlet	Turn on this setting to shade viewlet rows by workgroup server connection. See Configuring viewlet and workgroup server colors to learn how to choose the colors.
Turn On Multi-Selection by Default	When this setting is turned on, by default, a user can select multiple workgroup servers when editing a viewlet. If it is not turned on, the user must first select the Multi-Selection checkbox under the Workgroup server list before being able to select multiple workgroup servers.
Display Grouping In Connection Selection	If Workgroup server connection groups have been created, select this option to include these groups in Workgroup server lists, rather than including individual connections only.
Theme	Choose a Dark or Light theme for the Manage interface. Or choose Auto to follow the theme of your device or browser. Chrome and Safari: The Auto theme setting uses operating system theme and colors. Edge, Firefox, and Opera: The Auto theme setting uses the browser theme and color preferences. If those are set to automatic, the operating system theme and colors are used.
Search Settings: Result limit	For new viewlets. Define the default maximum number of results (objects) a search request will return. Use this to limit the number of managers, connections, routes, and so on, to be included in new viewlets by default. This setting overrides the corresponding Global Settings value. See Objects missing from a viewlet for more details about the Result Limit.
Restore Default button	Select to restore to default settings.

Global-Only User Settings
Name	Description
Refresh interval minimum (sec.)	To conserve system resources, you can now prevent users’ viewlets from being refreshed too frequently by establishing a minimum value for refresh intervals. This minimum threshold, Refresh interval minimum (sec.), is stored in Global Settings. When it is changed, all user-defined refresh intervals that fall below it are set to the threshold from Global Settings; the updated interval goes into effect the next time the user logs in.
Session timeout (sec.)	For security reasons, user sessions are set to terminate after a defined period of inactivity (known as the “session timeout”). The Session timeout (sec.) value is defined on the Global Settings dialog. The default value is 600 seconds (10 minutes). If a user’s session has been idle for 10 minutes, the Extend Session dialog is displayed, and the user can either click Continue to extend the user session or Log Out to exit the application.
Default Workgroup Server timeout (sec.)	Default timeout value for most Workgroup Server operations. See also “Workgroup Server timeout for long operations” below. The default value is 20 seconds.
Workgroup Server timeout for long operations (“Move/Copy All”, “Delete All”) (sec.)	Default timeout value for long Workgroup Server operations only. Overrides Default Workgroup Server timeout (sec.). The default value is 300 seconds.
Default manager type	For new systems or new users, the default selection in Product lists. However, after the first time a user manually selects a product, that selection remains the default Product for that user.
Bulk Select Max options	The Bulk Select Max options in Global User Settings control the number of objects in a viewlet that can be selected using the bulk select check box: . For General objects (that is, all objects except queue managers), the default limit is now set to 100 objects. If there are more than 100 objects in the viewlet, the Bulk Select check box is unavailable. For Restricted objects, which right now only includes queue managers, the default limit is set to 10 objects. If there are more than 10 objects, the Bulk Select check box is unavailable. Either limit can be set from 0 to 1000.
Search Settings: Result limit	For new viewlets. Define the default maximum number of results (objects) a search request will return. Use this to limit the number of managers, connections, routes, and so on, to be included in new viewlets by default. See Objects missing from a viewlet for more details about the Result Limit.
Search Settings: Search depth	Define the number of records that will be searched within each queue manager.
DLQ Selector	Allows for flexibility in identifying a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) by its name, so that meshIQ Manage can automatically apply the correct schema for the message format. This field accepts regular expressions for pattern matching. Example: .\\.DEAD\\.LETTER\\.QUEUE.
Security Manager URL	Location of security application. For the original security manager, use /apodwsm. For the new security manager, use /navxwsm.
Main Help URL	Defines the URL destination for the help icon on the toolbar. By default, the help icon opens the Resource Center; however, a different online destination can be configured here.