NetEx EFT213 Reference Manual Rel 5.4

HELP CommandDescriptionThe NetEx/eFT help facility gives you on-line access to NetEx/eFT topics including host specific qualifierinformation (both locally and remotely), formats and descriptions of all NetEx/eFT commands and examplesof how to use them. Some help text is actually retrieved from the remote host and therefore requires a remoteconnection. Typing HELP without a topic name will generate a top level help message followed by a list ofall topics and commands for which help is available.You can abbreviate any topic name on the HELP command line (including NetEx/eFT commands) althoughthe abbreviation must be unique to the topic name itself. The unique portion of the topic is represented in uppercase letters as shown in the subtopics list.FormatCommand Qualifier ParameterHELp [-SEArch string] [topic [subtopic]]Where:HELp-SEArchtopicsubtopic(required) the verb for this command. The minimum spelling is HEL.(optional) allows the user to search alternate paths for NetEx/eFT help files. For more information,refer to “IBM z/OS NetEx/eFT SEARCH Keywords (SITE), (USER), and (NONE)”on page 104. The default is (SITE). The minimum spelling is -SEA.(optional) name of a NetEx/eFT topic or command in which you desire additional information.(optional) a subtopic for which further help is available. These subtopics are displayed in thetop level help information.ExamplesTo get the highest level of help, you would just type:eFT> helpThis will provide you with a list of all topics in which help is available. From that list of topics you can begingetting help on more specific items of interest. For example, if you want help on the SEND command, youwould type:eFT> help sendNow, depending on the subtopics of SEND available, you might type:eFT> help send examplewhich would display a sample SEND command.Page 128 Command Descriptions REF-eFT213-R5.4-08