Displaying field help information

To display the field help information:

  1. Place your cursor on the field entry line.
  2. Press the Help function key (F1). The field help information is displayed in a pop-up window.

    If further information is needed, press the Extended Help function key (F5), to access the Tutorial Help page for the current panel.

    Pressing Help while the field information window is displayed takes you to the Help Tutorial page within the Tutorial Help system (that is, the page that describes how to use Tutorial Help).

  3. When you have finished reading the message or the relevant Tutorial Help page, press the Exit function key (F3) to return to your starting panel.

For example, Figure 1 shows the message seen when F1 is pressed from the Sysid field in the Edit CICS File Entry panel.

Figure 1. Field help information for the Sysid field
  Process   Options   Help
________________________________________________________________________________
 FM/CICS                   Edit CICS File Entry Panel

 Input CICS VSAM File:
    File name  . . . .         
    Sysid  . . . . . .     
    Start posit ┌──────────────────────── CICS Sysid ─────────────────────────┐
    Record limi │                                                             │
    Inplace edi │                                                             │
    Lock resour │ Sysid (Default blanks) This field contains the ID of the    │
 Copybook or Te │    CICS system(s) where the resource resides. A blank value │
    Data set na │    will default to the local system. You can enter a fully  │
    Member . .  │    qualified or generic sysid. In a generic sysid use       │
 Processing Opt │    the % sign to represent a single character, and an       │
  Copybook/temp │    asterisk * to represent any number of characters.        │
  3  1. Above   │                                                             │
     2. Previou │                                                             │
     3. None    │                                                             │
     4. Create  │                                                             │
                │ F1=Help     F3=Exit     F4=Resize   F5=Ex-help  F6=Keyshelp │
 Command ===>   │ F7=PrvPage  F8=NxtPage  F10=PrvPage  F11=NxtPage            │
 F1=Help     F3 └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 F11=Right    F12=Cancel