Re: Basic iSeries operations (was: Probably very easy, Newbie question)

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

If you find out the beginning text of any command, like
DSP for display
WRK for work with

you can key DSP* to get a list of all the commands that start that way, but
that can be pretty long

easier to GO MAJOR or GO MAIN then explore menus from there

There are also topics that have menus

GO TAPE for all the options to do with using the tape drive.

> Jill,
>
>  One of the real beauties of the AS/400 is its consistent command naming
>  structure.  Most of the commands are named in nice 3 characters
>  abbreviations that are generally intuitive and frequently "guessable" (if
>  that is a word).  If you think of something you want to do, like say "I'd
>  like to save a library", you might be able to guess that the command for it
>  is "SAVLIB".  "DSP" for Display, "OBJ" for Object, "CRT" for Create, "CHG"
>  for Change .... well, you get the picture.
>
>  Take a stab at guessing at a command or two, but remember to prompt for the
>  command by pressing F4.  Then position the cursor on the Command's Title
>  and press F1.  Voila, command help text!
>
>  Another goodie is to bring up a list of commands that can be chosen from a
>  menu:
>
>  GO  CMDDSP      (a list of all "DSP" commands is presented)
>  GO  CMDOUTQ  (a list of Output Queue commands is presented)
>  etc.
>
>  Enjoy!  Bill

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)