Help Text and Officevision/400

["Bull, Jeff" <BullJ1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
        We are currently using the HLPDOC keyword in our display file dds to
enable users to display the appropriate helptext for a field or function.
In light of the withdrawal of OV/400 from the scene by IBM, the displaying
of these 'Office' documents could potentially be problematic for our
application if they do not work after v4r5.  Does anyone know what will
happen on a V5R1 platform when an application that uses Officevision help is
run?  Will the program fail immediately or only when F1 is pressed?  Will a
nice message be displayed and the function carry on regardless?  

        We do not need OV/400 for maintaining or storing our help text as we
can find another approach.  For example, we might keep our help text in a
database on the AS/400 or in a text file in QDLS.  The real problem is the
runtime usage of OV/400 to display the office document when F1 is pressed.
What we would really like to do is call our own help text program with the
same parameters that must be going to the OV/400 program when F1 is pressed.
This would be the least intrusive solution to our application as we would
not have to change our DDS or our RPG programs.

        Does anyone know of a Red Book or API  we can use to solve our
problem ?

Kind regards,
Jeff Bull.
Senior Support Consultant
Certified IBM AS/400 System Administrator
Midas Kapiti International Ltd

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