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Function Shortcuts and Bypassing the Menu

The shortcuts available online to bypass certain panels are of limited value in batch. Batch transactions must single step from function to function much as a new user steps through a sequence of equivalent panels (for example, DBM, SCHD, JOB, and others). Some commands that provide secondary menu panels online, such as DB.2, DB.3, and DB.4, use positional keywords to identify the specific function rather than requiring another command to be entered separately.