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Online Help for panels and commands

UIE provides online Help that describes each panel and how to use it. The Commands panel provides additional, extensive Help for each command in that panel.

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Accessing panel-level online Help

To access online Help about the panel that you are viewing, press PF1.

The Help text that appears is organized into the following five sections:

  • Purpose of the panel
  • How to access the panel
  • How to use the options provided on the panel
  • Any rules that apply to use of that panel
  • Definitions of any fields shown on the panel
Warning

Important

The panel-level Help includes syntax for commands in all but the Commands panel, which has its own command-level Help (described in the following section).

Accessing command-level online Help

The Commands panel offers interactive Help for each command in the panel.

By typing a question mark ? in the command column next to any command listed at the bottom of the screen, you can view an interactive screen that describes the command and syntax and prompts you to enter values right there in the screen. You can check the validity of the values you have specified by pressing Enter, or you can press PF3 to accept the values and return to the Commands panel. If you change your mind about the values you have specified in this Help screen, you can type Cancel and return to the Commands panel.

Other Help aids

The other Help aids include VALIDATE and VIEWMSG commands.

VALIDATE command

If you type VALIDATE at the COMMAND ===> prompt on the Commands panel, Universal Information Exchange validates all of the command values on the screen.

If you have specified an incorrect format for any of the commands, UIE displays messages describing the errors as shown in the bottom part of the following figure:

---|DEFAULT|--------------------- COMMANDS ------------------------------------
 COMMAND ===>                                                  SCROLL ===> PAGE
                                                                               
     *-- Enter 'S' to select commands from these lists--*- Line Commands --*    
     | _ INTERVAL Specify processing intervals          |                  |    
     | _ SYSTEM   Define system properties              |    D  DELETE     |    
     | _ GROUPS   Assign resources to groups            |    I  INSERT     |    
     | _ FILTER   Control what input data is used       |    R  REPEAT     |    
     | _ OUTPUT   Set properties of output files        |    ?  PROMPT     |    
     | _ COMLIST  Provides a complete list of commands  |                  |    
     *--------------------------------------------------*------------------*    
                                                                               
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 _____ SDATE 07/06/11__________________________________________________________
 _____ STIME 0000______________________________________________________________
 _____ EDATE 2007162___________________________________________________________
 _____ ETIME ABCD______________________________________________________________
 _____ PSYS <NAME> SER=<NNNN> CPUTYPE=<TYPE> MIPS=<NNNN> SID=<LIST>____________
 *-----------------------------| END OF COMMANDS |-----------------------------*
---|DEFAULT|--------------------- MESSAGES -------------------------------------
 COMMAND ===>                                                  SCROLL ===> PAGE
                                                                               
*----------------------------| 2007-06-23 14:56 |---------------------------*  
BEGIN PROCESSING COMMAND FILE.                                                
UNIVERSAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE REL v.r.mm                            
YOU ARE LICENSED FOR PRODUCTS: MVP MVR MVA                                    
                                                                               
COMMAND INPUT==> SDATE 07/06/11                                               
SYNTAX ERROR IN DATE EXPRESSION. FORMAT IS 'YYYY-MM-DD'                       
        OR 'YYYYDDD' OR 'TODAY-N'.                                              
                                                                               
SDATE COMMAND IGNORED.                                                        
                                                                               
COMMAND INPUT==> STIME 0000                                                   
COMMAND INPUT==> EDATE 2007162                                                
COMMAND INPUT==> ETIME ABCD                                                   
                                                                               
ILLEGAL TIME VALUE. FORMAT IS HHMM                                            
                                                                               
COMMAND INPUT==> PSYS <NAME> SER=<NNNN> CPUTYPE=<TYPE> MIPS=<NNNN> SID=<LIST>
                                                                               
INVALID SYNTAX OF MIPS VALUE. IT MUST BE A NUMBER.

VIEWMSG command

You can type the VIEWMSG command from the Commands panel or from the Main panel.

You can use the VIEWMSG command as follows:

  • From the Commands panel—To view messages resulting from a VALIDATE command.
  • From the Main panel—To view messages resulting from a JCL build (executed with Option 5 on the Main panel).

On either panel, specify VIEWMSG right after the COMMAND===> prompt and press Enter.

Warning

Important

If you have just built a JCL file and you enter VIEWMSG on the Commands panel, the messages from the build and not the last VALIDATE command appear. It shows you the last table of messages that was built. To see the VALIDATE messages, you need to re-issue the VALIDATE command.

 

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