RE: Using UIM for help text even easier with V5R3

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If there is a PNLGRP, the command will generate the UIM
> source for it.

Just to clarify (cuz this is what I was asking [pining?] for in a prior
related post):  The GENCMDDOC "retrieves the source" from *PNLGRP objects?
Even IBM's?  Can someone on v5r3 do this for *PNLGRP object QGSPWRKF in
QSYS?  (This is, I think, the WRKSPLF display.)  Oh, and whatever the
*PNLGRP object is used by WRKMBRPDM?

'twould be nice to see the hidden goodies.

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Vern Hamberg
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:26 PM
>
> James Lampert mentioned how easy it is to write help text with UIM. V5R3
> has made it even better, with the GENCMDDOC command. This command is used
> to generate either HTML or UIM source based on a retrieved command
> description (QDCRCMDD command does not have a help PNLGRP attached, you
> will get a skeleton based on the parameters, etc., with places to
> put your
> text. If there is a PNLGRP, the command will generate the UIM
> source for it.
>
> There are a couple nice things - the source is not version-dependent. So,
> if you are like us, who develop on V5R1, you could bring your
> commands to a
> V5R3 machine, run the command, then bring the source back to the
> V5R1 machine.
>
> You can also reverse-engineer IBM's help text with this. This could give
> you ideas on how to do some of the neat things we see.
>
> Then, once you have created the PNLGRP, run the command again to
> get HTML,
> if you want. No more syntax diagrams (BOO! HOO!), but a nice parameter
> table with links to the individual parameter help.
>
> Guy Vig, of IBM, had webcasts in the last 2 weeks on both the new CL flow
> control stuff, etc., and the command documentation thing. Go to
> www.search400.com and look for webcast archives. He's also going to be at
> Toronto COMMON.
>
> Vern