Building a Prototype › Stage II: Adding Process Logic and Data Retrieval › ADSA Enhancements › Adding Features

Adding Features

The following ADSA features can be added to the prototype at this point:

• Global records (that is, records that are available for use by all dialogs in the application) can be defined
• User-program records (that is, records that are to be passed to a user-program) can be defined if needed
• Valid responses listed for a function can be resequenced or their display can be suppressed
• Signon can be specified as required or optional. If either is specified, these steps must be taken:
  • The signon function must be identified
  • The function type of the signon function must be specified as menu
  • The function must be defined as a menu
  • The SIGNON system function must be specified as the function initiated by the user's response from the signon screen
  • The response that initiates the SIGNON system function must be specified as a valid response for the named menu function

When these changes have been made, recompile the application.