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Menu Builder Feature

CA IDMS Masterkey provides you with a Menu Builder feature. The Menu Builder gives you total administrative control over which tasks a user or terminal may invoke. A menu replaces the "ENTER NEXT TASK CODE:" prompt and allows users to execute ONLY the tasks for which they have been authorized.

The task code associated with authorized functions is unavailable to the user. Users see only the comments associated with their authorized functions, as defined by the authorized database administrator.

Authorizations can be dynamically maintained while a user is active in the system. Menu modifications take effect the next time the menu is presented.

You maintain the Menu Builder functions with the standard CA, Inc. architecture using such features as online documentation, profile save and restoration, multi-mode screen formats, key substitution, and simple system navigation.

Authorized task initiations may use any features of CA IDMS Masterkey processing such as command concatenation, and nested, variably executed CLISTs. The task that invokes the Menu Builder feature is APPLKEY. Menu Builder users do not provide symbolic variables directly. Instead, the administrator supplies them as part of the authorized task streams.