RE: UIM apprentice...

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Check out SPLTOOL.  www.bvstools.com/spltool.html

It lets you add user options (just like in PDF) to a WRKSPLF type interface.
Among 10000 other things it does.  :)

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: D.BALE@handleman.com [mailto:D.BALE@handleman.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 12:22 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Cc: mcravitz@as400network.com
> Subject: Re: UIM apprentice...
> 
> 
> Specific to your mention of wanting to add a CPYSPLF option 
> to WRKSPLF...
> 
> As it happens, I have a WRKSPLF lookalike (in UIM) that was 
> authored by Mike
> Cravitz; I thought it was published by News400 eons ago, but 
> the source he
> gave me has no references to News400.  Plus a search on the 
> AS400 Network site
> turned up nothing.  I modified two options to use CPYSPLF as well as a
> home-grown PRTRNGSPLF (Print Page Range Spool File), both of 
> which pre-fill
> the spool file name info into the command prompts.
> 
> I have CC'd this post to Mike to ask his permission to share 
> his LSTSPLF
> utility.
> 
> BTW, in searching for the LSTSPLF utility on the AS400 
> Network site, I found
> what look to be several good references on using UIM.  Note 
> that most require
> membership.
> 
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
> D.Bale@Handleman.com
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> 
> -------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
> Simon,
> 
> Have always wondered if the following is possible:
> 
> We know that PDM allows us to create options etc.  Will it 
> not be great if we
> can add more options to existing IBM panels - like WRKSPLF?  
> I for one, would
> like to create such options like CPYSPLF, or other options to 
> archive etc. for
> example.
> 
> Will it be possible to explore this option in panels that 
> will be created by
> users ?  Predefined options numbers can be provided 
> ofcourse...Or is the whole
> thing too much to ask from UIM?
> 
> just curious.
> 
> 
> 
> "Simon Coulter" <shc@flybynight.com.au> on 04/14/2001 01:18:52 AM
> 
> Please respond to RPG400-L@midrange.com
> 
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
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> 
> Subject:  Re: UIM apprentice...
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Since there seems to be a reasonable interest in a UIM guide 
> I shall try to
> create one in what little spare time I have.  I think an 
> e-Book format is
> probably the best approach but I will listen to those who 
> desire a printed
> copy.  I suspect a properly published book (a la Duke Press 
> and Midrange
> Computing) will take so much of the price in "costs" as to make it
> untenable although I'm open to approaches from publishers.
> 
> I intend the book to start with the simple stuff (menus, help 
> text, etc)
> and move on to the really useful stuff (input screens, scrolling,
> conditioned displays, and work-with panels, etc).  All code 
> examples will
> be in RPG IV with additional examples in C, and ILE/COBOL.
> 
> Regards,
> Simon Coulter.
> 
> 
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