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SUMMARY o Interactive -- enter HELP at the system prompt. Then enter COMMANDNAME[,[KEYWORD]]. Exit by entering E or EXIT. o Direct Access -- enter HELP COMMANDNAME[,[KEYWORD]] at the system prompt. Help exits after displaying (and scrolling) the portion that you specified. o This SUMMARY contains seven special topics: FUNCTION summary of Help function NM commands that operate in Native Mode. CM commands that have been enchanced for MPE/iX. UNSUPPORTED commands that are NOT SUPPORTED in MPE/iX. UNCHANGED commands that retain their function from MPE V/E. XLSYNTAX discusses SYNTAX FLEXIBILITY with the NM commands.
Interactive
:HELP -----> START OF THE HELP FACILITY | Help Facility >XYZ -----> START OF THE COMMAND "XYZ" | remains interactive >EXAMPLE --> EXAMPLE OF "XYZ" | until you exit by >ABC ------> START OF THE COMMAND "ABC" | explicit command >PARMS ----> PARAMETERS OF "ABC" | >EXIT -----> leaves the help facility | PARMS, OPERATION, : | EXAMPLE Direct Access
:HELP XYZ --> START OF COMMAND "XYZ" | Quick in, : --> scrolls and leaves the help facility | quick out :HELP XYZ PARMS ----> START OF PARAMETERS OF "XYZ" : --> scrolls and leaves the help facility Native Mode Commands These commands operate in Native Mode in the MPE/iX operating system. In the Help Facility, they are denoted by the notation (NM). Bbxl Copy Option Vsreleasesys ++=====================++ Bbxlcomp Deletevar Pasxl Vsreserve || The EXIT command is || Bbxlgo Do Pasxlgo Vsreservesys || a subcommand of the || Bbxllk Echo Pasxllk Vstore || Help Facility. An || Calc Elseif Pause Vsuser || attempt to access || Ccxl Endwhile Print Warn || this entry with || Ccxlgo Errdump Return Welcome || >EXIT|| Ccxllk EXIT Rpgxl While || within the Help || Chgroup Ftnxl Rpgxlgo Xeq || Facility fails. || Cob74xl Ftnxlgo Rpgxllk || Instead, from the || Cob74xlg Ftnxllk Showvar || system prompt, do || Cob74xlk Input Sysgen || this -- HELP EXIT || Cob85xl Link Vsclose || to get the text on || Cob85xlg Listredo Vsopen || the EXIT command. .|| Cob85xlk Octcomp Vsrelease ++=====================++ (more - Compatibility Mode Commands The following commands were part of the MPE V/E operating system. Their functionality has been enhanced in the MPE/iX operating system. In the Help Facility, they are denoted by the notation (CM). Altacct Listf Purgeuser Startsess Altgroup Listftemp Redo Store Altuser Listgroup Report Data Listuser Restore Debug =Logoff Run Else Newacct Set Hello Newgroup Setcatalog Help Newuser Setdump If Purgeacct Showcatalog Listacct Purgegroup Speed HP system variables are listed under the entry HPVARS and VARIABLES. (more - ) Unchanged Commands These commands function as they did in the MPE V/E operating system. In the Help Facility, they have neither the (CM) or the (NM) notation. Abort Bbasic Deletespoolfile Fortprep Listeq Abortio Bbasicgo Disallow Fortran Listlog Abortjob Bbasicomp Disassociate Freerin Lmount Accept Bbasicprep Discrps Ftn Log Allocate Breakjob Dismount Ftnprep =Logon Allow Build Down Getlog Mount Altjob Bye Download Getrin Openq Altlog Changelog Dstat Headoff Outfence Altsec Cobolii Editor Headon Pascal Altspoolfile Coboliigo Endif Job Pascalgo Associate Coboliiprep Eod Jobfence Pascalprep Basic Comment Eoj Jobpri Prep Basicgo Console Fcopy Jobsecurity Preprun Basicomp Continue File Ldismount Purge Basicprep Deallocate Fortgo Limit Recall (more - ) Unchanged Commands (continued) These commands function as they did in the MPE V/E operating system. In the Help Facility, they have neither the (CM) nor the (NM) notation. Refuse Save Showtime Up Release Secure =Shutdown Vmount Rellog Segmenter Shutq Rename Setjcw Spl Reply Setmsg Splgo Reset Showallow Splprep Resetacct Showdev Startspool Resetdump Showin Stopspool Resume Showjcw Stream Resumejob Showjob Streams Resumelog Showlog Suspendspool Resumespool Showlogstatus Switchlog Rpg Showme Tell Rpggo Showout Tellop Rpgprep Showq Tune (more - ) These commands are not supported in MPE/iX. Almost all of them are concerned with optimizing the performance of the system. These optimizing functions now reside in the background of the MPE/iX system. ()COMMAND LOGON FULLBACKUP PURGEVSET VINIT ALTVSET GIVE QUANTUM AUTOALLOCATE LISTVS SHOWALLOCATE CACHECONTROL MIODISABLE SHOWCACHE COBOL MIOENABLE SHOWCOM COBOLGO MOFF STARTCACHE COBOLPREP MON STOPCACHE EOF MPLINE TAKE FOREIGN PARTBACKUP SYSDUMP (see SYSGEN) SYNTAX RULE: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::: The old MPE-V/E syntax (shown in :::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::: the syntax diagrams) always works :::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: The MPE-V/E syntax conventions are maintained throughout the Help Facility for consistency. You may use the MPE-V/E syntax convention for and command: NM, CM, or UNCHANGED. But you may use the more flexible syntax for any NM command except SETVAR. Suppose that the NM CMDNAME command has the following syntax: :CMDNAME KEYWORD1 = value1; KEYWORD2 = value2;... KEYWORDn = valueN Because it is a NM command, you may choose how you enter the command at the keyboard or in a job stream. For the NM command CMDNAME, the following forms of entry are valid: :CMDNAME KEYWORD1 = a; KEYWORD2 = b... ;KEYWORDn = n :CMDNAME a, b,... ,n :CMDNAME a, b; KEYWORD7 = g; KEYWORD4 = d ;KEYWORD3 = c The order relationship between parameters is still important: positional parameters must come before keyword parameters, as they did in MPE-V/E. This is true for all commands, NM, CM, or UNCHANGED. Because this order relationship is enforced, the following attempt to enter positional parameters after a keyword parameter will produce an error: :CMDNAME a, b;KEYWORD7 = g, h Introducing a keyword variable (delimited with a semi-colon) terminates positional assignment. The positional "h" produces an error. The online documentation for the EXIT command causes a problem. The word "EXIT" is reserved in the Help facility. As a result, attempting to access the EXIT text from within the Help Facility ">EXIT " fails. You may call up the EOJ command ">EOJ and then use to "page" forward to the EXIT command text. * OR * You may invoke the Help Facility and the text for EXIT at the system prompt this way -- "HELP EXIT ". This "direct" access to the Help Facility gives you the text specified and then returns to you to the system prompt. (more - ) Back to Main Index