Update Content-Sensitive Help

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Update Content-Sensitive Help

CA Mainframe Application Tuner features content-sensitive, online Help information for CSECTs, pseudo groups, and delay categories. To display this information, place the cursor on a highlighted field and press PF1. You can add to the Help topics provided by CA Mainframe Application Tuner by writing your own help for any topic to customize the information to your site.

There are two components for content-sensitive Help information:

Entry

Identifies the Help information by Content, Content Type, Help Member, Help Topic, and Info Level.

This information displays in the Content Sensitive Help panel.

Text

Is the actual Help information displayed when content-sensitive Help is requested.

Help text is located in a Help member. Each Help member can contain several Help topics. Help members are located in the hilevel.UTRHELP data set for your site.

To display content-sensitive Help, select Option 3 from the Administration Option Menu. The Content-sensitive Help panel displays:

CA MAT ----------------- Content-sensitive Help ---------- Row 1 to 12 of 298 COMMAND ===> SCROLL ===> CSR Primary commands: ADD Line commands: CE - Copy entry DE - Delete entry UE - Update entry BT - Browse help text ET - Edit help text LC Field Specific Contents Type Help Help I S LAST Member Topic L L USER ________________________________ ________ ________ ________ _ _ ________ >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ __ ACCEPT COBVERB TUCCBLNG ACCEPT 3 D CAMAT __ ADD COBVERB TUCCBLNG ADD 3 D CAMAT __ ALTER COBVERB TUCCBLNG ALTER 3 D CAMAT __ CALL COBVERB TUCCBLNG CALL 3 D CAMAT __ CANCEL COBVERB TUCCBLNG CANCEL 3 D CAMAT __ CLOSE COBVERB TUCCBLNG CLOSE 3 D CAMAT __ COMPUTE COBVERB TUCCBLNG COMPUTE 3 D CAMAT __ CONTINUE COBVERB TUCCBLNG CONTINUE 3 D CAMAT __ DELETE COBVERB TUCCBLNG DELETE 3 D CAMAT __ DISPLAY COBVERB TUCCBLNG DISPLAY 3 D CAMAT __ DIVIDE COBVERB TUCCBLNG DIVIDE 3 D CAMAT __ ENTRY COBVERB TUCCBLNG ENTRY 3 D CAMAT

The available line commands are described next.

CE - Copy entry

Displays the Content Help Copy panel, which allows you to copy the selected table entry and Help text.

DE - Delete entry

Removes a user-created Help topic.

This line command is not valid if the SL field contains the value D.

UE - Update entry

Displays the Content Help Update panel.

Use this panel to change information for an existing entry. You can change the information level, the Help member, or the Help topic, and edit the Help text. This line command is not valid if the SL field contains the value D.

BT - Browse help text

Displays a pop-up panel with the Help text for the topic.

Use this panel to verify that the Help text is formatted correctly.

ET - Edit help text

Displays the Help member in edit mode.

See Write Content-Sensitive Help Text for information about typing Help text. This line command is not valid if the SL field contains the value D.

Each field in the Content-sensitive Help panel is described next.

Field Specific Contents: contents of the field for which the Help topic was written
Type: Category for the Help information; valid types are:

CSECT: load module CSECTs

DB2PLAN: DB2 plan names

DB2TYPE: DB2 calls

MAJDELAY: major delay descriptions

MINDELAY: minor delay descriptions

MODULE: load module names

TRANCODE: CICS/IMS transaction names

Help Member

Member name of the hilevel.UTRHELP data set in which the text for the topic is found.

Help Topic

one- to eight-character identifier for the Help information

The Help Topic is a subtopic of the Help Member.

I L

Information level of the Help information.

This value indicates the importance or severity of the information and defines the highlight color of the field content:

Info level 1 (red) indicates a known cause of problems
Info level 2 (yellow) indicates a potential cause of problems
Info level 3 (white) indicates informational content.

S L

Source level of the available Help:

U indicates user-written Help information that is provided by your site
D indicates distributed Help information that is provided by CA Technologies

Last User

User ID of the last person to update the Help topic.

For distributed Help information, the user ID is CA MAT.

Date

Date that the Help was last updated.

Time

Time that the Help was last updated.

Following, the Help text is shown for the Attach SVC minor delay category. The text is located in hilevel.UTRHELP member TUCMALOD under the topic ATTACHSV. The type of Help is MINDELAY.

CA MAT Attach SVC More: + Command ===> Scroll ===> PAGE ------------------------------------------------- Create a new unit of work in the system and start that unit of work. The Attach SVC will perform the following functions: o Create the task management control blocks o Determine if the module is in memory o Locate the module in the specified library o Allocate storage for the module o Read the module into storage and relocate addresses o Build and update control blocks to track the module o Place the new unit of work on the MVS/ESA dispatcher queues. CA MAT TIP: Use the A - Address line command to determine which programs were waiting for the Attach SVC. If Detail data is available, you can view the names of the modules that were attached that caused the delay.

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