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  • 1.  Menu Manager action

    Posted Wed September 27, 2023 03:01 PM

    Hello,
    regarding the Menu Manager feature, I've started to investigate/create same actions and menus and for what I've seen in one of available videos here, there's the possibility to call external windows programs like notepad and web browser; I've tried to find a manual with all these funcions but I didn't found any reference to it (maybe I've not searched well) ; for exemple:
    1/ using notepad <file> it opens a file thru notepad;
    2/ using explorer "link" it opens the page thru the web browser.

    I'm not able to see these options anywhere in the manual; Can someone tell me where can I find the list of available instructions (call to external pgm's ) ?

    Thank you in advance!
    Best Regards,



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    Joao Carvalho
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  • 2.  RE: Menu Manager action

    Posted Fri September 29, 2023 09:28 AM

    I am not sure how we can document something like that, we do not know all the possible external applications that you may have installed on your laptop which can be started from the command line.   If there is one you are interested in trying then I would suggest researching the documentation for that particular application.

    Another technique I have seen used to interact with CLIs on a Windows laptop from Menu Manager actions, is to use cmd.exe /c <command for the CLI>  which causes text output from the command to be displayed in the Remote Console view in IDz.



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    William (Bill) Alexander
    STSM - IBM Z DevOps
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