hpcc-systems/HPCC-Platform — Issue #1506: ecl (de)activate help needs clarification
Author: cloLN
Created: 2012-02-09 20:15:21+00:00
State: open

@afishbeck

the help files for activate and deactivate need some cleaning up.

```
[clo@dataland_oss:node020078 ~]$ ecl deactivate

Usage:

ecl deactivate
Options:
queryset containing alias to deactivate
query to deactivate (delete)
-v, --verbose output additional tracing information
-s, --server= ip of server running ecl services (eclwatch)
--port= ecl services port
-u, --username= username for accessing ecl services
-pw, --password= password for accessing ecl services
[clo@dataland_oss:node020078 ~]$ ecl deactivate myroxie read_index.4
Error (20098) Alias myroxie/read_index.4 not found.
[clo@dataland_oss:node020078 ~]$ ecl activate

Usage:

ecl activate
Options:
name of queryset containing query to activate
query to activate
-v, --verbose output additional tracing information
-s, --server= ip of server running ecl services (eclwatch)
--port= ecl services port
-u, --username= username for accessing ecl services
-pw, --password= password for accessing ecl services
```
Upon close inspection of the help, the deactivate help says alias under the queryset option. This should actually be populated in the query portion as well like follows:

``` alias of query to deactivate (delete)```

as for ecl activate, I think the help for should be more specific as follows:

``` id of query to activate```