Re: Compiling menus via WDSc

Yeah - the UIM panel stuff is fascinating - the system arranges the screen layout for you, based on content. It IS not fun to write in the tag language - based on SGML, same as good old HTML. It even has ul and ol and li tags - heh!

Yes - I've long wanted a UDA - someone at IBM REALLY knows those tags! Just like wiki writers!! And other GHKs!

See you in Nashville, I think

Vern

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

True, Vern. Whenever I have to add another option to one of our menus,
which are already overcrowded, I convert it to UIM. What I would really
like to see is, at least, an SDA-like interface to designing one.

You can, also, use UIM panels for display files. Haven't drunk that
kool-aid yet, but it looks interesting.

* Jerry C. Adams
*IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
B&W Wholesale Distributors, Inc.* *
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vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Gotta say it!! Change over to UIM menus! Almost all of the IBM menus are this

type - did a quick survey of the menus in QSYS - 1 DSPF menu, 6 PGM menus, and a
PF menu - whatever that is!!

DSPF PCOMNU
PF CLEANUP
PGM ASSIST
PGM CFGIPI
PGM CFGIPX
PGM CFGTCP
PGM PERFORM
PGM PERFORMG

You get scrollability with UIM menus, but only one column, whereas DSPF types

give you 2 columns but no paging.

Very easy to write, after the first one!!!

JMHO!
Vern

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From: "Wilt, Charles" <WiltC@xxxxxxxxxx>

SDA menus use the CRTMNU command also.

CRTMNU MENU(MENU400) TYPE(*DSPF).

I would think you could add a customer compile command for them. Only

problem

is you need to create
the *MSGF object along with the *MENU object.

I assume you've already created the *DSPF object.

Should be doable, might work best if you use a custom CL program as a compile
command that creates
both the *MSGF and *MENU. Might take some programming to get the messages

from

the MNUCMD source into
the *MSGF.

HTH,

Charles Wilt
Software Engineer
CINTAS Corporation - IT 92B
513.701.1307

wiltc@xxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:43 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Compiling menus via WDSc

Hmmm, I never tried compiling MNUDDS style menus outside of SDA. When I
tried using a '14' option in PDM, it told me that there was no such
option available.

UIM menus, on the other hand, do use the CRTMNU command to compile. For
those type menus the CRTMNU command does show up in the 'Compile..'
option of the toolbar and elsewhere.

* Jerry C. Adams
*IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
B&W Wholesale Distributors, Inc.* *
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615.995.7024
fax
615.995.1201
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Justin Taylor wrote:

I can edit my menus via LPEX (MNUCMD) and CODE/Designer (MNUDDS) but I
cannot find a way to compile them. Can they be compiled via WDSc or
does it require SDA?

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