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Dialog Control

A dialog passes control to another dialog based on the execution of a control command and/or the terminal operator's selection of processing. The dialog that receives control can be a different dialog, a copy of the executing dialog, or all or part of the executing dialog itself.

Operations Performed by Control Commands

You can use specific control commands to perform the following operations:

• Pass processing control from one dialog to another dialog or to a user program
• Display a dialog's map
• Terminate an existing dialog or application
• Exit CA ADS
• Pass processing control to specified points within a dialog and reinitialize the record buffers associated with a dialog

Most of the control commands used are available to all applications. When designing dialogs that will become part of an ADSA application, you can also use the EXECUTE NEXT FUNCTION command.