Requesting help within help

Many of the help pop-up windows contain highlighted words or phrases. These are hyperlinks: if you place the cursor on any of these highlighted words or phrases and press Enter, additional information about the word or phrase is displayed.

The help pop-up window has its own command field in which you can enter further help requests. When the help pop-up window contains information about the online help facility itself, issuing:

HELP
Displays information about the online help facility
HELP topic
Displays information about the designated help topic
INDEX
Displays a list of available help topics

When the help pop-up window contains help information for a view, a field within a view, or an action command, issuing:

HELP
Displays information about the online help facility
HELP ACTIONS
Displays information about the action commands valid for the view
INDEX
Displays a list of the fields in the view for which help can be requested
INDEX VIEWS
Displays a list of the names of all views that are related to the view in the current window and for which help can be requested. The list item ACTION indicates that help for the actions that can be performed is available.

All entries in the lists produced by both INDEX and INDEX VIEWS are hyperlinks, which means that you can display additional information by placing the cursor on an entry and pressing Enter.

When you request additional information from a pop-up window, a second pop-up window overlays most of the original pop-up window, as shown in Figure 37.

Figure 37. Nested help pop-ups
  27FEB2005 11:30:30 --------- INFORMATION DISPLAY -----------------------------
 COMMAND  ===>                                                 SCROLL ===> PAGE
 CURR WIN ===> 1         ALT WIN ===>
  W1 =PROGRAM===========EYUPLX01=EYUCSG01=27FEB2005==11:30:30=CPSM==============
 CMD Program  CICS     Enabled  Use     Current Program   Shared  CEDF
 --- Name---- System-- Status-- Count-- Use---- Language- Status- Option
     .---------------------------------------------------.PRIVATE CEDF
     | Help        CICSPlex SM Introduction         Help |SHARED  NOCEDF
     | .---------------------------------------------------.IVATE NOCEDF
     | | Help         How can I use CICSPlex SM?      Help |ARED  NOCEDF
     | | .---------------------------------------------------.
     | | | Help        What are action commands?        Help |
     | | | Command ==>                       Scroll ==> Page |
     | | | ------------------------------------------------- |
     | | | Action commands affect one or more CICSPlex       |
     | | | resources or CICSPlex SM definitions represented  |
     | | | in a view. There are primary and line action      |
     | | | commands.                                         |
     | | |                                                   |
     ' | |  o Primary action commands and their parameters   |
       | |    can be entered in the COMMAND field or         |
       ' |    assigned to a PF key. They act against the     |
         |    view that is in the current window.            |
         '---------------------------------------------------'
 

Searching a help topic

When information about a specific help topic is displayed in a help pop-up window (in response to the HELP topic command, for example), you can search the help topic by issuing the command:

   Find string

where string is a word or a phrase. Find is not case-sensitive, so you can enter the string in uppercase or lowercase characters. If the string contains a space, you must enclose the string in single quotation marks:

   F 'an example'

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