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Menu System and Web Interface

The CA Spool Menu System and Web Interface employ the Advanced Communication Interface (which is part of the CALL Interface) to allow you to control CA Spool files and printers without leaving the normal online environment.

The Menu System uses ISPF-type full-screen panels to display and control spool files and printers owned by your network group. The Web Interface uses HTML panels to display and control spool files and printers owned by your network group. The following capabilities are provided:

• You can browse spool files on a display terminal.
• Files can be viewed with standard CA Spool browse, ISPF browse, or CDPU browse commands.
• In the browse facility, it is possible to exclude some of the columns in a report, logically view a spool file so you see on the screen what will be printed on paper, and employ page-based scrolling, positioning and partial printing.
• The Menu System and the Web Interface provide brief online help information for the various panels is provided.
• The Display Printer panel supports all valid printer actions and commands for one or multiple printers.
• CA Spool commands can be issued and responses displayed on the screen from any of the panels. The number and order of fields displayed can be tailored to user's needs according to the installation's standards.
• All text on the Menu System and the Web Interface panels can be changed and translated if necessary.

The current version of the CA Spool Menu System is supported under TSO, ISPF, CICS, CA Roscoe, CA IDMS, VTAM and IMS, and from NATURAL environments running under TSO, CICS, IMS, and COMPLETE.