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Getting Help

If you need help while using the full‑screen feature, you can place the cursor anywhere on the screen at any time and press your HELP PF key (the default is PF1, but you can redefine your own PF keys). CA ACF2 for VM provides you with online assistance for that screen. You can also place the cursor on any field (or field title) and press your HELP PF key. CA ACF2 for VM displays additional information about that field. If you place the cursor on the OPTION or COMMAND lines and press your HELP PF key, you receive information on what kind of values are permitted.

You can also enter HELP on the COMMAND or OPTION line on the screen and move the cursor to a position on the screen (as described in the above paragraph), then press Enter. You do not need to use a PF key.

The HELP command also lets you obtain additional help that is not available through the HELP PF key. You can enter:

HElp Help

To obtain information about the HELP command

HElp Pfkeys

To obtain information about the PF key defaults

HElp INPUT

To obtain information about valid input on the command line

HElp Message msgid

To obtain information about message.

Message Help

There are three ways to obtain help for the last message the CA ACF2 for VM
full‑screen facility issued.

  1. Move the cursor to the third line on the screen and press your HELP PF key
  2. Enter HELP on the command line, move the cursor to the third line of the screen, press Enter
  3. Enter HELP Message on the command line.

To receive help for any message, enter:

HElp Message msgid

The value of msgid is the data that appears before the message text. You can normally drop the pgrmid in 4 through 6 places in the message ID. For example, both of the following command will display help for message ACF929E:

HELP MES ACFMFS929E
HELP M ACF929E

To review help information about messages, you must be linked to and have access to the disk that contains the help files. The full‑screen feature honors EMSG settings of ON, TEXT, and CODE, indicating the type of messages you see and how you see them. If you need information about the help files or message settings at your site, contact your systems programmer.