SAS(R) 9.1.3 Companion for z/OS

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HTML file that can be used by Web browsers. accessible-index-filename must have
a file extension of .htm, and it must reside in a path that is specified by the
HELPLOC= system option. The default pathname is /help/common.hlp/
keywords.htm.
See the default index file for the format that is required for an index file.
HTML-Help-index-pathname
specifies the pathname of the Microsoft HTML Help index that is to be used by
SAS Help in Windows environments. The default pathname is common.hhk. For
information on creating an index for Microsoft HTML Help, see your Microsoft
HTML Help documentation.
Details
Use the HELPINDEX= option if you have a customized index that you want to use in
place of the index supplied by SAS. If you use one configuration file to start SAS in
more than one operating environment, you can specify all of the partial pathnames in
the HELPINDEX= option.The order of the pathnames is not important, although only
one pathname of each type can be specified.
When the HELPINDEX= option specifes a pathname for UNIX, OpenVMS, or z/OS
operating environments, SAS determines the complete path by replacing /help/ in the
partial pathname with the pathname specified in the HELPLOC= option. If the
HELPLOC= option contains more than one pathname, SAS searches each path for the
index file.
For example, when the value of HELPINDEX= is /help/common.hlp/myindex.htm
and the value of HELPLOC= is /u/myhome/myhelp, the complete path to the index is /
u/myhome/myhelp/common.hlp/myindex.htm.
See Also
HELPLOC= System Option
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Specifies the location of the text and index files for the facility that is used to view SAS Help and
Documentation
Default: HELPDOC
Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation
Category: Environment Control: ENVFILES
PROC OPTIONS GROUP= HELP
z/OS specifics: all
Syntax
HELPLOC=location-1
location
specifies a specially formatted help data set known as an itemstore.