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Example of a Tiered Menu Design

A company needs to present three entries for the primary menu that lead to sub menus (TSO, CICS, and SYSPROG) and application session entries for TPXOPER, TPXVIEW, and AUDIT. If the menu design is correct, it will appear as the following screen:

                       TPX MENU FOR      TPXUSER1           Panelid  - TEN0041                                                              Terminal - A11BU002  Cmdkey=PF12/24    Jump=NONE      Menu=PF4                  Model    - 3278-5A   Print=NONE        Cmdchar=\                                System   - TPXPROD                                                                                      Sessid      Sesskey       Session Description            Status                                                                                                _ TSO         PF            TSO Menu                                             _ CICS        PF            CICS Menu                                            _ SYSPROG     PF            System Programmer Menu                               _ TPXOPER     PF            TPX OPERATOR                                         _ TPXVIEW     PF            TPX VIEW Application                                 _ AUDIT       PF            Corporate Auditing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Command ===>                                                                    PF1=Help  PF7/19=Up  PF8/20=Down  PF10/22=Left  PF11/23=Right  H =Cmd Help     

TPXOPER, TPXVIEW, and AUDIT are actual applications and selecting any of these would start a session to the respective application.

From the main menu, the user can also complete the following actions: