RE: Panel Group help format

> From: thomas@inorbit.com
>
> Are you saying that standard IBM menus aren't supported under
> web-facing? or that many other IBM-supplied panels aren't
> supported -- standard help text being a major example? I'd been
> led to believe that many IBM-supplied panels were UIM; but you're
> saying none of this works under web-facing?

Some of the basic help keywords (HLPxxx) are supported in the latest release
of WebFacing (V5R1 SP5).  To get a complete list of keywords and their
support, go here:

http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ad/wdt400/webfacing/ddsref/rwfkwd.htm

You'll notice that some help keywords and most of the GUI keywords are
slated for "future release" or "not planned".  Specifically, HLPPNLGRP is
slated for "future release".


> If what you're saying is true, then web-facing must be very
> different in how it sees the data stream.

Screen scraper techniques can more easily support UIM help because the
presentation layer is done on top of the 5250 data stream.  WebFacing works
more like PSC400 - there is no 5250 data stream per se.  The I/O operations
are intercepted prior to building the 5250 screen.  Instead, the HTML must
be built directly from the data buffers and the DDS keywords.  Because of
this, certain keywords are much harder to support.  It's no coincidence that
the keywords supported by WebFacing closely mirror those supported by
PSC400.

Joe