The Menu Master is a specialised AS/400 software product designed to facilitate menu creation, maintenance, control and usage monitoring. The system provides facilities for interactive creation and maintenance of menus and allocation of menu options to specified users. Control as to what access is available to end users at any time and how the users access the options is also provided by the System. Statistics representing system usage are also collected and reported for management purposes.
The Menu Master is fully interfaced to the standard IBM AS/400 Control Language Commands processor. This enables menu options to do more than simply call a program. Control Language Command streams can be set up with full access to the IBM Command Prompter and Syntax Checker. Variables can also be defined for passing parameters to both Control Language Commands and application programs. This simplifies application system design by reducing the need for simple Control Language Programs.
The scope of the Menu Master covers the following.
- The interactive creation and maintenance of user application menus
- The interactive creation and maintenance of user profiles and their relevant access authority into the menus and menu options
- The temporary withholding of user access to complete menus or selected menu options at any time
- The use of Control Language Commands within the definition of the menu options in order to minimise or eliminate the use of Control Language Programs within applications
- The definition of variables within the menu system for the purpose of passing parameters to programs or Control Language Commands
- The collection and reporting of menu usage statistics
