RE: Using UIM for help text even easier with V5R3

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan

I'm on V5R3. Unfortunately GENCMDDOC has no way to reference a PNLGRP, 
except indirectly through the command you are trying to document.

But there is another way, and it is available back to V5R1. This is the 
QUHRHLPT API (retrieve help text), which generates XML from the help tags 
of a *PNLGRP or UIM *MENU. The output of this API is what feeds into 
GENCMDDOC, it's just taken 3 releases to get the command interface.

Any *PNLGRP can have help tags in it, but display *PNLGRPs from IBM, I 
think, tend to have help in a separate one. But not necessarily.

Vern

At 12:01 PM 9/24/2004, you wrote:
> 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
>
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