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Creating and Maintaining Menus

To create or change a Toolkit menu, perform the following:

1. From any command line, enter:

YGO *Y1.

The Toolkit Utilities Main Menu displays.

1. From the Toolkit Utilities Main Menu, enter the Design Aids option.

   The Toolkit Design Aids menu displays.

2. From the Toolkit Design Aids menu, enter the Menu Commands option.

   The Toolkit Menu Commands menu appears.

3. From the Toolkit Menu Commands menu, enter the YWRKMNU Work with Menus option.

   The Work with Menus panel displays.

4. From the Work with Menus panel:
   1. In the Menu name field, enter the name of your menu.
   2. In the Library name field, verify that the library is the name of your generation library (GENLIB).
   3. Press Enter. The Work with Menu Details panel displays.
5. To insert lines on your menu, from the Work with Menu Details panel enter the Insert Mode option.

   While in this mode, Toolkit inserts a blank line each time you press Enter.

6. Enter the information you want:
   • Prefix—A word or two that categorizes options (optional).
   • Opt—The character or number the user enters to select the menu. N in this field automatically numbers the options.
   • Description—Title as you want it to display on the menu.
7. Press Enter twice to end insert mode.
8. Type Z (Details) against each menu option you have defined.

   The Work with Menu Options panel displays for the first option.

9. From the Work with Menu Options panel, change any defaults as needed. You can invoke the command prompter by pressing F4 (Prompt), typing Z (Details) against any option, and pressing Enter.

   Notes:

   • For Option type choices:

     – PGM allows use of ? (question mark) for the name of a program.

     – CMD requires that you enter an IBM i command in the Option to be executed field.

   • In the Library field, entering *MDL enables the menu to list all functions in the model. From here, you can select one. This automatically sets the parameter list for the function.
   • In the Option to be executed field, if you enter a function,CA 2E automatically adds a return code parameter.
10. Exit and save:
    1. From Work with Menu Options, press F3 (Exit) twice. The Work with Menu Details panel displays, followed by the Exit Work with Menu panel.
    2. From Exit Work with Menu, enter the option Exit and replace menu.

       The Toolkit Menu Commands menu displays.