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Overview
MenuPlus was developed to fulfil the need for greater functionality, versatility
and security at the menu level on the AS/400.
Features
MenuPlus incorporates the following features:
- Allows up to 99 options per menu.
- Option security is specified using standard OS/400 user profile names or
authorisation lists. This additional level of security may be maintained
interactively or by using simple commands.
- When menus are displayed, the options to which the user is not authorised
may either be hidden by renumbering the menu options or may be displayed with a
gap where the missing options would have appeared. Unauthorised options, even those
for which the authority has been revoked since the menu was displayed, cannot be selected.
- Menus may be maintained interactively whilst in use without compilation as
MenuPlus requires only base OS/400 and no other IBM licensed program.
- Menus can be copied at system, menu or option level with or without their
authorities and help text.
- Help text may also be maintained interactively. This help text enables
users to scroll through all the options for which help text has been specified
and then execute the required option from the help screen without having to
return to the menu display.
- A built-in menu navigation system allows
users to search across rather than up and down a complicated menu structure.
The menu may be selected either as a normal menu or as a PC-type pull-down menu.
- Menu selection is cursor-sensitive on pull-down menus and by option number
or cursor-sensitive on normal menus.
- All menu options can optionally be confirmed before execution with a default
reply also being prompted. The commands behind a menu option can also optionally
be submitted to a job queue for execution, again with a default reply.
- Conversion from native menus is easy provided source is available.
Conversion from other menu systems is available on request.
- Command retrieval (F9) of commands entered on the command line can be
done irrespective of job logging level, with no practical limit.
- The use of Group Jobs using the attention key is supported.
- Details of all systems, menus and options can be printed using a simple
command. This documentation can include full help text and a list of all authorised
users of each menu option.
- Frequently used functions can be stored and used by all users either
from the command line or from a list.
- MenuPlus is controlled at two levels.
Users authorised as administrators can edit menus, help text, authorities and user
options. Users authorised only as users can only display and use the menus.
- Selection of the initial menu or any subsequent menu can be completely interactive.
Users do not need to know the system, menu or even library names.
- All 5250-type mono or colour screens and 5250 emulations on PCs or PS/2s are supported.
- MenuPlus supports OS/400 Security Levels 10, 20, 30 and 40 but will
provide menu security only for levels 30 and 40.
- Common functions such as WRKSPLF, WRKUSRJOB, WRKSBMJOB etc. can be provided
as user options thus overcoming the most common objection of users restricted to
mandatory menus.
Benefits
The benefits of installing MenuPlus are thus obvious:
- Many different
departments in an organisation which currently have similar but slightly
different menus can now use the same menus.
- New options can be added to
existing menus or new menus added to the menu structure which are immediately
avaliable to users.
- Use of the command line can be restricted to only the most
senior and trusted users by causing a MenuPlus menu to be displayed on initial
sign-on.
- Existing menu systems are easily converted to the MenuPlus system for
added security, flexibility and ease of maintenance.
MenuPlus supports all versions of both CISC and RISC OS/400
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