{"id":68,"category_id":3,"slug":"smmenu","type":null,"name":"SM\/MENU","code":"SMN","content":"<p><strong>Present CICS applications to your end-users easily<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Session Manager for CICS\/MENU<\/strong>(SM\/MENU)&nbsp;is a separately licensed component of <em>Session Manager for CICS<\/em>.&nbsp;<strong>Session Manager for CICS\/MENU<\/strong>&nbsp;provides a consistent, easy-to-use user interface with a menu selection of your application items. End-users select from easily recognized Application Descriptions on their menu as opposed to remembering more cryptic transaction names to type on a blank screen. Each terminal or user is assigned to a Group using masks or exits, for example an exit that extracts the group from the user's security profile. Group profiles determine the Primary Menu so the user sees only relevant applications. You can nest Menus and update an optional user exit to further customize the display. INPUTMSG data can be passed to applications.&nbsp;<strong>Session Manager for CICS\/MENU&nbsp;<\/strong>can also prevent&nbsp;end-users from seeing a blank screen via the provided AUTO RETURN exit. The AUTO RETURN exit determines the presence of a blank screen condition and displays the proper menu if detected.&nbsp;<strong>Session Manager for CICS\/MENU<\/strong>&nbsp;works with MacKinney Systems'&nbsp;CICS\/SignOn&nbsp;or an External Security Manager (such as RACF, Top Secret or ACF2) to prevent unauthorized transactions from appearing on users' menus.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>The other&nbsp;Session Manager for CICS component is SM\/SWAP. SM\/SWAP allows a single CICS terminal to function as up to eight logical terminals with each one running the same or a different transaction. Groups shared with SM\/MENU determine the maximum sessions, rotate keys and optional transaction to launch for each of the sessions. Navigation between the sessions is done by pressing the group's designated forward and backward PF\/PA keys. Another optional PF\/PA key can be assigned to launch the Selection Screen, where you directly select a session, hide or unhide sessions or save your sessions for later use.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><img src=\"\/public\/multimedia\/userfiles\/image\/SMN\/SMNscreen.jpg\" class=\"screen-image\" alt=\"SM\/MENU screen\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\"><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Replaces:<\/em><br>\r\nCICS\/Menu II<\/p>","summary":"","featured":0,"status":1,"passwords":1,"extended_info":"0","deleted_at":null,"created_at":"2017-11-14T23:21:24.000000Z","updated_at":"2017-12-02T02:26:34.000000Z","sorted_releases":[{"id":949,"parent_id":null,"product_id":68,"release":"1.3","notes":"<p>Summary of Changes:<\/p>\r\n<ul><li>Added support for License Key 3<\/li><li>Improved handling for SWAP Environment Queue WRITEQ errors<\/li><li>Expanded support for Temp Storage Queue Names<\/li><li>&nbsp;Manual re-organization and message clarifications<\/li><\/ul>","released_on":"2023-09-05T21:15:47.000000Z","deleted_at":null,"children":[{"id":1014,"parent_id":949,"product_id":68,"release":"1.3.05","notes":"<p>Enhancements:<\/p><ul>  <li>Removed RELSENSCALL for      CTS 6.3 support\r\n <\/li><\/ul><p><\/p>","released_on":"2025-08-28T19:11:26.000000Z","deleted_at":null},{"id":993,"parent_id":949,"product_id":68,"release":"1.3.04","notes":"<p>Maintenance release<\/p>\r\n<ul> <li>Corrects LPAR name     license key verification error.&nbsp;<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","released_on":"2025-01-29T21:28:24.000000Z","deleted_at":null},{"id":974,"parent_id":949,"product_id":68,"release":"1.3.03","notes":"<p>Maintenance release:<br><\/p>\r\n<ul>  <li>CICS\/TS v6.2 support      added.\r\n <\/li><\/ul>","released_on":"2024-08-20T21:18:30.000000Z","deleted_at":null},{"id":966,"parent_id":949,"product_id":68,"release":"1.3.02","notes":"<p>Maintenance release:<\/p><ul>  <ul>   <li>Fix       1302 Corrected ENA for SMN when SMG not present\r\n   <\/li><li>Fix       1301 Help was not working from a Menu\r\n  <\/li><\/ul> <\/ul>","released_on":"2024-04-11T12:34:40.000000Z","deleted_at":null}]},{"id":732,"parent_id":null,"product_id":68,"release":"1.2","notes":"\n<ul>\n <li>Changed Group Profile parameter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\"Allow AUTO RETURN exit to display initial menu\" to \"Exit prevents seeing a blank screen after initial menu\".<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">With either 'Y' or 'N', users will see the initial menu when the Menu environment is enabled. The default value, 'Y' prevents a blank screen display from an application and instead displays the applicable Menu (when the Menu environment is active).\u00a0 'N' allows the application to exit to a blank screen. When 'N' is selected, you can enter 'MENU' to re-launch the applicable menu anytime you are at a blank screen.<\/p>\n<ul>\n <li>All batch jobs now default to open for read-only to prevent contention if only list-type reports are being used<br \/>\n <\/li>\n <li>A new inquiry API is available for SM\/SWAP and SM\/MENU to return MAX sessions and LogPfx. 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