regarding cics

[sushanta123]

Hi every1,

Actually i have doubt in CICS apart from DB2..

Through my application screen in CICS i want to send a help screen more likely a pop-up box with a different background color.

This help screen will a small screen probably with SIZE=(08,80) and it should contain the boundary just like a pop-up box and it should be displayed in that previous screen itself without erasing that one. But i am not sure whether this is possible in CICS or not. I think this is very challenging.

So guide me if you have the solution..

Thanks in Advance

[petwir]

I have seen this done before in CICS, and it isn't pretty. You have to design a brand new screen that "looks like" a pop up window on top of another window, with the background area of the screen all modified to be protected. It really isn't worth the effort.

I've also seen a 3rd party sofware product that can be installed into a CICS environment to provide cursor-sensitive pop up windows. That is you can configure it so if the user puts their cursor on a field and press PF1, it would pop up help for that field. I don't remember the name of the product though. We de-installed it quite a few years ago when we realized no one was bothering to use it.

Pete