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Toolkit Menu Description

A Toolkit menu consists of title information and a list of options. Each option calls an executable function. Only one menu option is specified per menu line. Menus have a maximum size of 100 lines (about six pages) including the title line. Menus larger than a page are shown as a subfile, which can be scrolled through. Each menu page may contain up to 14 menu options.

The Toolkit menu display program is designed to be consistent with IBM’s SAA standards, and in particular with IBM’s menu display program (see the i OS command Go to Menu (GO)). Particular features include:

• Request line entry: i OS CL commands may be entered on the bottom lines of the display.
• F09 - Duplicate previous request
• F10 - Invoke i OS QCMD program (optional feature)
• F14 - Display submitted jobs
• F16 - Return to major menu
• F23 - Reset current menu to be major menu

The menus you create with Toolkit are efficient to use, whatever the level of the user’s experience: beginners can take a step by step slow path, supported by explanatory text, while experts can take a fast path to specify their requirements quickly and concisely.