There are two flavors of documentation, the one made by the VM lab,
documents what the VM lab supports, and the one by John Hartmann, Pipes'
author.
When you issue HELP PIPE LOOKUP (or HELP PIPE MENU) you get the VM lab doc,
and there all parameters are documented again and again for each stage.
If you issue PIPE AHELP LOOKUP (or PIPE AHELP MENU), you get that Authors
help, and there gneral parameters are not repeated, you could see for
LOOKUP simply "inputrange". Then you'd need to find out what "inputrange"
might be. With PIPE AHELP MENU you can easily find what it is, and you'll
see that you can specify WORD1, or a column range, etc.
For starters, the VM lab online help is probably easier. After a while
through, you will find John's documentation is much better.
To complicate things even more: the VM lab supports (and documents) pipe
level x, but what is included with z/VM is pipe level y, a superset of
level x. HELP PIPE explains level x, PIPE AHELP explains level y.
But, you can also go to the www and find an even much more recent level of
PIPE, and install that on your VM system, so you get level z. If you also
install the newer documentation, PIPE AHELP explains level z. HELP PIPE
remains at level x.
Our TCVM2 selfstudy does handle only what is distributed with z/VM itself,
so level y.
Kris Buelens
freelance z/VM consultant
Op 4-aug.-2014 23:35 schreef "Miguel Soltero Diaz" <mig...@live.com>:
> thanks guys...
> working on it... :)
>
> quick question Kris...
> why not include those parms for LOOKUP/COLLATE in the manuals?
> Or did I miss them?
>
> Thanks for the swift response guys..
>
> ...as always...
>
