EGL Reference Guide for iSeries


FormGroup part

An EGL FormGroup part serves two purposes:

You do not declare a form group as if you were declaring a record or data item. Instead, your program accesses a FormGroup part (and the related forms) only if the following statements apply:

A program can include no more than two formGroup parts; and if two are specified, one must be a help group. A help group contains one or more help forms, which are read-only forms that give information in response to a user keystroke.

Forms are available at run time only if you generate the FormGroup. The generated output for Javais a class for the FormGroup part and a class for each Form part. The generated output for a COBOL program is as follows:

At preparation time, each of those entities is processed into a separate run-time load module. The EGL run time handles the interaction of your generated program and the form-specific code.

Form parts cannot be generated separately.


Related concepts
Form part
References to parts


Related reference
Use declaration


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