RE: Command Help API

Sounds like an interesting exercise.

For UIM-related APIs, you would need to look in the System API Reference -
OS/40 User Interface APIs manual (SC41-5876-02). I'm pretty sure there's a
print API. I believe I used it about four or five years ago, so cannot
advise further.

The books can be accessed from
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/


HTH


Chris Jewell
mailto://jewellcj@jewellconsult.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Bill
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 12:08 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Command Help API
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm doing a quick utility to list available
> commands.  I have a screen built to display the
> commands, where they can run, when they were
> created, etc.  It includes selection fields to
> limit what is shown.  (the screen built with Synon
> 2/e, but used no file, for those of you that like
> to hear about this sorta thing).  Now, I want to
> have the option of creating a listing of the UIM
> help associated with the commands, like press Fn,
> get report.
>
> I'm using an API to retrieve the commands in a
> library (QCRDCMDI) but need the API to grab the
> help.  QCRDCMDI returns the help object name and
> library where the help is located.  As a quick
> work-around for our QC guys, I'm just reading
> through the QPNLSRC members, overriding for each
> command and producing a listing based on certain
> UIM tags that I need to limit on.  This is ok, but
> I don't want to have to count on the source being
> in the same place.
>
> So, does anyone know the API that will get me the
> help associated with a command?
>
>
> Bill Meecham
> wm@extol.com
>
>

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