RE: Using UIM for help text even easier with V5R3

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I saw your implication that it was only for help panel groups.  But, a panel
group is a panel group, right?  I don't know about that for sure, but
there's no attribute on the *PNLGRP object type, so I was hoping for the
best answer.

Still, if anyone's on V5R3, would you be willing to see if you can convert
the WRKSPLF panel group display object QSYS/QGSPWRKF, and see what it does?

tia,
db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Vern Hamberg
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 12:18 PM
>
> I need to clarify, and I think I may have misled y'all. This is only for
> help text in a PNLGRP that is associated with a given command.
> Look for the
> HLPPNLGRP parameter on CRTCMD.
>
> GENCMDDOC does use an existing help PNLGRP when you want to
> generate *HTML,
> but when you want *UIM, it seems only to generate a skeleton.
> Maybe that is
> on purpose, to prevent reverse-engineering, as I'd like to do. But I'm
> going to look further.
>
> There is also an API that's been around since at least V5R1, QUHRHLPT
> (retrieve help text) that works right off of the *PNLGRP or *MENU (UIM
> type). It generates an XML file of the help. Not as useful as I'd like in
> reverse-engineering.
>
> I apologize for raising hopes too high.
>
> Vern