Re: Command Help API

I finally got back to this 'pet project'.  You guys (Chris & Brendan)
pointed me in the right direction!  QUHPRTH works great.  The 'similar' one
that will display the help text, QUHDSPH looked interesting too.  I built an
interface for that and added it as a record option.  I've gotten it to
display the entire command help.  Things are heating up again in development
so I'll have to leave it at that.  I wanted to try to select the help at the
tag level but that'll have to wait for another time. (if ever)  I don't get
too many opportunities to try things with the option of failing like this
one.

Thanks again for the help!

Bill Meecham


-----Original Message-----
From: Brendan Bispham <midrangel@black-and-blue.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 6:01 AM
Subject: RE: Command Help API


>Bill,
>
>If you know the command parameters, you can use QUHPRTH (OS/400 User
Interface APIs book). This will only print the helptext, and
> you'll have to retrieve the spooled file.
>I've only used the (similar) API to display help, and it's easy enough.
>
>Brendan Bispham
>
>-----Original Message-----
> 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?

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