Appearance of Menus

Your application menus should follow the OS/400 user interface standards for menus, as seen on the OS/400 system displays.

OS/400 has two variants of menu:

Task menus. These menus show the tasks relating to a single subject; for example configuration. A command line is optional.
Command group menus. These menus show groups of commands or menus with a common verb (for example, DSP or WRK) or a common subject (for example, OBJ). Standard subheadings are used and the command or menu name is shown on the right. A command line is common.

Task menu with command line is displayed in the following example:

A task menu with no command line is shown as follows:

A command group menu is shown as follows: