Re: searching for menu system

Hello Kerwin,

Am 13.03.2025 um 15:15 schrieb K Crawford <kscx3ksc@xxxxxxxxx>:

I am wanting a custom menu system. Instead of starting from scratch I thought I would search here first, but did not find anything. Logically the next step was to ask this question. Maybe someone knows of one. We are currently using the old Sys36 menus for our menus. I want to get away from that. A PIA to do menus, can not do them in RDi and has to use PDM. Does anyone have recommendations for a system? Preferably no cost.

I strongly recommend using Panel Group based menus. You can find more information about it in the "Application Display Programming" PDF.

http://public.dhe.ibm.com/systems/power/docs/systemi/v6r1/en_US/sc415715.pdf (Server appears to be down, maybe search yourself.)

To me, the main advantages are:
- Looks exactly like original IBM menus
- Scrollable without any programming effort
- Only one object instead of three (compared to DDS based menus)

And it's free.

I like how iTera's menu works. where you can use numbers like 1.50.5 that would run the option as if you navigate to main menu took option 1 then option 50 then option 5.

Sounds very ISPF like (z/OS). But otherwise, IBM i has a much more uniform UI. With a clever menu structure, the lack of jumping to a submenu's menu item can be minimized.

Would be nice to have some security and auditing built in.

That's already provided by the OS. No extra hoop-jumping required.

:wq! PoC