The SHOW HISTORY command lists information about CMS library transactions. CMS records all transactions that update the library. The following transactions are not logged in the library history: ANNOTATE SET LIBRARY DIFFERENCES SHOW commands FETCH (no remark) VERIFY (no qualifiers) RETRIEVE ARCHIVE The SHOW HISTORY command displays a chronological list of transactions. The transaction records are displayed in the following format: date time username command remark A space separates each item in the transaction record. Each item is explained below. date Displays the date the command was issued, in the following format: [d]d-mmm-yyyy For example: 9-JUN-1988 time Displays the time the command was issued, in the following format: hh:mm:ss For example: 17:12:12 09:02:33 username Displays the user name of the person who issued the command. command Identifies the command that was issued. The string "CMS" does not appear as part of the command. The command name, option name (if any), and any parameters are displayed. If the command operates on a particular generation of an element, the element name is followed by the generation number enclosed in parentheses; for example, SEMANTICS.PAS(3). Qualifiers that indicate some modification of the library are logged; for example, the /NAME qualifier with a MODIFY command. remark Specifies a character string that was logged in the history file with this command, usually used to explain why the command was entered. The remark is enclosed in quotation marks. If no remark was entered, a null remark ("") is displayed. The following is an example of one transaction record: 11-AUG-1988 11:54:15 TAYLOR REPLACE SYNTAX.PAS(3) "RECORD and FOR loop syntax compatible" This record shows that on August 11, 1988, at 11:54, user TAYLOR issued the REPLACE command on SYNTAX.PAS, which created generation 3. For any command that caused an unusual occurrence, CMS displays an asterisk in the first column. Note that because transaction records for elements, groups, or classes deleted from a library are retained (see DELETE ELEMENT, DELETE GROUP, and DELETE CLASS), SHOW HISTORY can display records for elements and classes that do not currently exist. If a deleted name is reused, SHOW HISTORY does not distinguish between the old and the new histories.