While editing a rule, you can display information in browse format for the following types of tokens: rules, tables, fields, screens, reports, and routines. Selected information appears for each token type. You can expand a token named in the rule using a function key or primary command, or expand on any allowable token type not named within the rule using a primary command.
Positioning your cursor on a token name and pressing PF14 causes the screen to split horizontally into two portions. As shown in the following screen, the upper portion displays the rule being edited and the lower portion displays information about the selected token in a browsable format. To scroll in either portion, position your cursor in the desired portion and press PF7 to scroll up or PF8press to scroll down.
To display a rule, routine, or table, position your cursor on the desired token name and press PF14. Because the information appears in browse mode, you can also display the rule you are currently editing.
To display report information, the cursor must be positioned on the report name within a call to the
$SETRPTMEDIUM or
$RPTPRINT tools or within a PRINT statement. After positioning the cursor, press PF14.
The primary command EXPAND also invokes the expand facility. You specify
EXPAND using the format:
token_ type is optional and can be one of the following: RULE, REPORT or RPT, SCREEN or SCR, TABLE or TBL. If no type is specified the search hierarchy is: reports, screens, tables, rules, and routines. The first match found is expanded within a display area.
You can expand more than one token at a time. This is known as nesting. To nest an expanded display, position the cursor on the desired object within the display and press PF14.
Nesting expanded displays is permitted for rules, screens, and reports. Within screens you can also nest screen tables, and within reports you can also nest report tables. Nesting is not permitted from within a routine, table, or field.
To close an expanded display and exit to the previous display, press PF15. If you press PF15 in the top-most display, it closes the expand facility. If you are in a lower nested level, press PF15 outside of the expanded display to exit the expand facility, or type in the command
CLOSE in the primary command field and press Enter. Either method closes all open displays.
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