Displaying field-level help information

To display the field-level help information for a field on a File Manager/Db2 panel:

  1. Place your cursor on the field entry line.
  2. Press the Help function key (F1). The field-level 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, Field-level help information for the PAGESIZE field shows the message seen when F1 is pressed from the PAGESIZE field in the Set Print Processing Options panel.

Figure 1. Field-level help information for the PAGESIZE field
Process   Options   Utilities   Help
 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 FM/Db2 (DFE2)            Set Print Processing Options

 Set processing options as desired and enter EXIT (F3) to save your changes.
 Enter RESET to restore installation defaults.

 Print Options:
    PRINTO ┌─────────── Set Page Size ───────────┐ , TERMINAL or REXX
    PRINTD │                                     │
    PRINTL │ Range: 1-999                        │
    PAGESI │ Default: 60, unless changed in your │  a printed page
    PRTTRA │          File Manager installation. │
    PRTDIS │                                     │
    PAGESK │ Specifies the number of lines per   │
    WIDEPR │ page on any File Manager print      │
           │ output.                             │
           │                                     │
           │                                     │
           │                                     │
           │                                     │
 Command = │  F1=Help     F2=Split    F3=Exit    │
  F1=Help  │  F4=Resize   F5=Ex-help             │ v  F6=Reset     F7=Backward
  F8=Forwa └─────────────────────────────────────┘