RE: Dynamic part on a standard menu

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm probably flogging a dead horse, but a menu that's a CL program and a
display file can do this very easily.  RTVDTAARA ENVTEXT &SCREENFIELD

This assumes that there is a unique version of a particular data area for
each environment.  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evan Harris [mailto:spanner@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 2:56 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Dynamic part on a standard menu
> 
> 
> Vern/Mike
> 
> I think a list panel in UIM could also provide you with dynamic menu 
> options. It depends whether you want to spend the time 
> learning UIM or not.
> 
> The value of this investment might be indicated by the fact 
> that an RPG 
> menu program could be web-faced while a UIM based program 
> would have to be 
> re-written.....
> 
> Regards
> Evan Harris
> 
> >I don't think it's possible, Mike. See my comments below. 
> The only choice 
> >for runtime that gives you dynamic text is a *PGM menu, as 
> far as I can 
> >tell. Then you can either have things conditioned in the 
> program, or use a 
> >message file in a distinct library for dynamic text, using 
> the MSGID keyword.
> >
> >Alas!
> >
> >Vern
> >
> >At 03:30 PM 2/14/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >>Unless I am doing something wrong, I can't do that through 
> STRSDA and PDM.
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Wills, Mike N. (TC) [mailto:MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >>Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 3:20 PM
> >>To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> >>Subject: RE: Dynamic part on a standard menu
> >>
> >>
> >>I didn't think of trying indicators... I will try that!
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >>Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 3:06 PM
> >>To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> >>Subject: RE: Dynamic part on a standard menu
> >>
> >>
> >>Booth, how do you do this? There's nowhere in the SDA opt 2 
> to condition a
> >>constant. Putting * in front of a constant only gives 
> display attributes
> >>and colors. You can always put them into the raw source, 
> but how do you
> >>turn them on when you are not the app that's calling 
> (using) the DSPF?
> >>
> >>Also, I tried U1 in the conditioning indicator location - 
> you can only have
> >>01-99.
> >>
> >>Regards
> >>
> >>Vern
> >>
> >>At 03:08 PM 2/14/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >> >menu constant fields can be conditioned by indicators.  I 
> could not find if
> >> >allowed indicators include U-1 through U-8.   If they are 
> allowed then CL
> >> >would be a good solution to set U-1 through U-3 for your problem?
> >
> >
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