Thomas A. La Porte wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Gary Johnson wrote:
>
> >I do have a question though......does anyone out there know if there are
> >any other SHOW commands available, and if possible where these commands
> >might be documented...????  I have searched high and low, and cannot
> >seem to find anything about them.  Maybe one of the ADSM developers
> >monitoring the ADSM-List can point me in the right direction....or
> >supply the appropriate advice...??
>
> The SHOW commands are explicitly *not* documented because they
> are unsupported commands. They are there primarily for the
> benefit of the developers and support personnel when debugging
> problems. I believe that there have been instances in the past
> in which a SHOW command has proved to be very useful to users,
> and has been "promoted" to a supported QUERY command.

Or, for example, an SQL SELECT statement; witness the 'show volumeusage'
command.  Ooops, I didn't really say that....

Cheers...
Bruce