IBM LPP Application Development Products 687
Draft Document for Review October 18, 2004 5486LPAD.fm
Solutions and benefits
APD for AS/400 allows menu items from different applications to be integrated on
the same menu and to be accessed from that menu without intervening security
constraints. This can greatly simplify user navigation between applications.
Features
APD provides the following major functions:
Menu creation and control
Security (authorization and conflict management)
Direct access to menus and programs (fastpath between applications)
Backup and restore
Batch job scheduling and support
Restart supervision routines
Multiple data set and multi-installation support
System services
Application installation procedures
In addition to these major application functions, APD for AS/400 provides the
following features, intended to broaden the applicability and appeal of the
product:
Windowing features within APD for OS/400 menu design and control
automatically cause the APD for OS/400-defined menus to be presented in a
more modern, window format:
– Menu bars with up to six choices
– Pull-down windows with up to nine choices and dynamically determined
window height
– Pop-up and cascaded windows
– Menu windows with up to 99 scrollable options
– An unlimited number of cascaded windows
– Customizable colors for menus, window bars, and borders
APD for AS/400 administrative menus are also presented in windows.
Multilingual support is provided for user applications that are coded to support
multi-lingual environments.
Support for updating user applications via APIs is provided to permit users to
update the APD for AS/400 information tables about their applications
whenever they have new releases or important changes.
To Next Page
Loading...
Need help?
General