Help Text and Officevision/400

[bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

HLPDOC will continue to successfully access the Office documents even
though OfficeVision is not installed.  Your application users should
see no difference.

For maintaining the help documents, it is my understanding that other
editors are available in the market place for working with the
documents.

Bruce

>
>        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 ?
>


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