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Main Menu

The Main Menu is a panel that offers a selection of the CA Ideal major facilities and functions. You can invoke the same facilities and functions by specifying the equivalent commands in the command area.

 IDEAL: MAIN MENU                                        SYS: DOC      MENU

  Enter desired option number ===>       There are 11 options in this menu:

  1. PROGRAM              Define and maintain programs
  2. DATAVIEW             Display dataview definitions
  3. PANEL                Panel Definition Facility
  4. REPORT               Report Definition Facility
  5. PLAN                 Application Plan/Package Maintenance
  6. PROCESS              Compile, Run, Submit, Debug
  7. DISPLAY              Display Entities
  8. PRINT                Print Entities
  9. ADMINISTRATION       Administration functions
 10. HELP                 Overview of HELP facilities
 11. OFF                  End IDEAL Session

The commands equivalent to each menu selection follow, with a description of each selection and the name of the guide where the function is documented.

• PROGRAM-How to define and maintain program definitions is described in the Creating Programs Guide.
• DATAVIEW-How to define, display, and print dataview definitions for CA Datacom/DB tables, sequential files, VSAM files, and DB2 tables is described in the Creating Dataviews Guide.
• PANEL-The panel definition facility, PDF, is described in the Creating Panel Definitions Guide.
• REPORT-The report definition facility, RDF, is described in the Generating Reports Guide.
• PLAN (DB2 Only)-The DB2 Plan definition facility is described in the chapter “Preparing DB2 Application Plans.”
• PROCESS, DISPLAY, and PRINT-The PROCESS, DISPLAY, and PRINT functions are described in the Working in the Environment Guide.
• ADMINISTRATION-The functions of a CA Ideal administrator are described in this guide.
• HELP-The CA Ideal help facility is described in the Working in the Environment Guide.
• OFF-The command to end a CA Ideal session is described in the Working in the Environment Guide.