Re: Compiling menus via WDSc

Here's an example of what I mean. This is the command executed on a
particular menu of mine:

?BB15 ??PROCS(*N) ??PRINT(*NO) ?-RAWPKGLST(*SAME/PKGLBLAL) ?-MBR(ORDERS)
?-SUBMIT(*YES) ?-LBLGRP(*STD)

When the menu option is taken, the command itself is prompted due to the ?
in front. The ?? in front of parms PROCS and PRINT allows the user to
change those and the ?- causes those parms to not even be displayed, meaning
that can't be changed. I also at times use ?* which shows that particular
parm, but it cannot be changed. (I know you already know about the ?, ??,
?-, and ?*; I just put it here for others who may not know. There are
others too, but I've never used them.)

Is all the possible when both building a UIM menu and when using it?

Thanks.

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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Compiling menus via WDSc

Jeff

You can have a full command line on UIM menus - just another
tag - not sure if that is your question.

Basically these are what IBM uses for almost everything - the
behavior you see there is what these give you. In our
products we have commands with various prompting as the
action behind the menu item.

I just tried an IBM menu - MAIN - put a "1" on the command
line and pressed F4 - got a message that you cannot prompt menu items.

Does that make sense?

Later
Vern

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Do the UIM menus you create have full command prompting

like regular menus?

You know, the ?? and ?- and ?* stuff. And are those

promtable during

design and runtime?

What tool do you use to convert from regular to UIM menus?

Thanks.

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Jeff Crosby
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the

opinion of

my company. Unless I say so.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 2:53 PM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Compiling menus via WDSc

True, Vern. Whenever I have to add another option to one of our
menus, which are already overcrowded, I convert it to

UIM. What I

would really like to see is, at least, an SDA-like interface to
designing one.

You can, also, use UIM panels for display files. Haven't

drunk that

kool-aid yet, but it looks interesting.

* Jerry C. Adams
*IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
B&W Wholesale Distributors, Inc.* *
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vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Gotta say it!! Change over to UIM menus! Almost all of the

IBM menus are this type - did a quick survey of the menus

in QSYS -

1 DSPF menu, 6 PGM menus, and a PF menu - whatever that is!!

DSPF PCOMNU
PF CLEANUP
PGM ASSIST
PGM CFGIPI
PGM CFGIPX
PGM CFGTCP
PGM PERFORM
PGM PERFORMG

You get scrollability with UIM menus, but only one column,

whereas DSPF types give you 2 columns but no paging.

Very easy to write, after the first one!!!

JMHO!
Vern

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Wilt, Charles" <WiltC@xxxxxxxxxx>

SDA menus use the CRTMNU command also.

CRTMNU MENU(MENU400) TYPE(*DSPF).

I would think you could add a customer compile command

for them.

Only problem is you need to create the *MSGF object along with
the *MENU object.

I assume you've already created the *DSPF object.

Should be doable, might work best if you use a custom CL

program as a

compile command that creates both the *MSGF and *MENU. Might
take some programming to get the messages from the MNUCMD

source into the

*MSGF.

HTH,

Charles Wilt
Software Engineer
CINTAS Corporation - IT 92B
513.701.1307

wiltc@xxxxxxxxxx

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On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Compiling menus via WDSc

Hmmm, I never tried compiling MNUDDS style menus

outside of SDA.

When I tried using a '14' option in PDM, it told me that

there was

no such option available.

UIM menus, on the other hand, do use the CRTMNU command

to compile.

For those type menus the CRTMNU command does show up in

the 'Compile..'

option of the toolbar and elsewhere.

* Jerry C. Adams
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Justin Taylor wrote:

I can edit my menus via LPEX (MNUCMD) and CODE/Designer
(MNUDDS) but I cannot find a way to compile them.

Can they be

compiled via

WDSc or does it require SDA?

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