The CICSPlex SM help facility

At any time during a CICSPlex® SM session, you can request online assistance by issuing the HELP display command.

When you issue the HELP command:

a full-screen help panel is displayed. If there is more than one such panel for a help topic, an indication of further panels is provided at the bottom of the panel. To display the next panel in the sequence, you press Enter. To leave the help information, you issue the END command.

When you request help from the information display panel, a scrollable pop-up window partially, and temporarily, overwrites the contents of the panel. 3

An example help pop-up is shown in Figure 36.

Figure 36. Help pop-up
  27FEB2005 11:30:30 --------- INFORMATION DISPLAY -----------------------------
 COMMAND  ===>                                                 SCROLL ===> PAGE
 CURR WIN ===> 1         ALT WIN ===>
  W1 =PROGRAM===========EYUPLX01=EYUCSG01=27FEB2005==06:34:54=CPSM==============
 CMD Program  CICS     Enabled  Use     Current Program   Shared  CEDF   Copy
 --- Name---- System-- Status-- Count-- Use---- Language- Status- Option Require
     PROG0123 EYU .----------------------------------------------------. NOTREQU
     PROG0123 EYU | Help           PROGRAM General View           Help | NOTREQU
     PROG0345 EYU | Command ==>                        Scroll ==> Page | NOTREQU
     PROG0445 EYU | -------------------------------------------------- | NOTREQU
     PROGA545 EYU |                                                    | NOTREQU
     PROGA645 EYU | Provides general information about currently       | NOTREQU
     PROGA655 EYU | installed programs.                                | NOTREQU
     PROGA666 EYU |                                                    | NOTREQU
     PROGA656 EYU | Availability:                                      | NOTREQU
     PROGA667 EYU |                                                    | NOTREQU
     PROGA657 EYU | The PROGRAM view is available for all managed CICS | NOTREQU
     PROGA687 EYU | systems.                                           | NOTREQU
     PROGA687 EYU '----------------------------------------------------' NOTREQU
     PROGA689 EYUMAS1A  ENABLED       0       0 ASSEMBLER PRIVATE NOCEDF NOTREQU
     PROGA697 EYUMAS1B  ENABLED       0       0 ASSEMBLER PRIVATE NOCEDF NOTREQU
 

There are three ways of requesting help from the information display panel. You can:

Note:
Any HELP command that you issue frequently (for example, HELP ACTIONS), can be assigned to a PF key.

This section describes the three ways of requesting help from the information display panel, describes how to obtain help for some error messages, and explains how to end the help function.


3.
If you are using a version of ISPF prior to Version 3 Release 1, all help information is provided in full-screen panels.

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