Modifying the Application Structure Using ADSA › Summary

Summary

You can use ADSA to modify the application structure at any time. You can use ADSA to add, modify, and delete functions, responses, and task codes, as necessary.

In this chapter, you used ADSA as follows:

1. You modified the EXIT response to make [PF3] invoke the EXIT response.
2. You modified the ADDDEP function to make the MOD response available directly from ADDDEP.

You can modify any part of the Department application structure at this stage. For example:

• If administrators decide that a particular function is no longer necessary due to changes in regulations, you can use ADSA to quickly delete the function and the response that invokes it.
• If end users decide that a summary or list screen would be useful at some point in the application, you can use ADSA to define a new function to display the summary screen. You can then add a response to invoke the new function, and make other responses valid from the new function.

Additionally, you can modify other application components at any time in an application's life cycle. As an application developer, you can make changes to maps, for example, as soon as end user suggestions are approved. In the next chapter, you will use MAPC to modify map XXXMAP.