we have started publishing z/XDC's Built-in Help as web pages that are far more user friendly than z/XDC's classic HELP command. The pages contain the same topics as the classic Built-in Help, but they have several additional features:
- The Help can be navigated using all the methods that browsers offer.
- There is a search bar that for the first time allows the Help to be fully searched in user friendly ways:
- Normal ISPF style options can be used: WORD, PREFIX, SUFFIX, case match (or not).
- The search also allows regular expressions! (woohoo!)
- The search bar will also allow you to navigate using classic HELP commands.
- Example: HELP COMMANDS LIST TASKS
- There is a navigation sidebar at the left that shows (by topic names) any part of the Built-in Help you like.
- The sidebar shows the Help's topics hierarchy.
- The hierarchy can be expanded, collapsed and navigated through in all the ways that you would expect.
The help can be found at colesoft.com/help.
Rebuilding the Help pages is now a part of our normal publishing process, so we expect to be able to keep it bleeding edge current.
William Cole put this together. He is a new hire. He also is my grandson. His prospects as a mainframe developer are promising.
