This chapter describes the easy-to-use menu interface via which you can perform your user tasks or your FT and FTAC administrator tasks. The previous distinction between one menu system for administrators and another for users has been discarded and both now see the same entry menu (Primary Option Menu). Naturally, FT and FTAC administrators have more rights.
All openFT functions are supported by the ISPF product provided that this product is installed in the z/OS system. In this case, the FT user and the FT administrator are provided with the user-friendly ISPF interface with the usual choice of menus and data entry panels, immediate warnings in the event of errors, help functions etc. When you use this menu interface, the corresponding commands are issued internally. The panels of the menu interface are described below.
A description of how to enter the commands NCOPY, NCANCEL and NSTATUS directly under TSO is given in the chapter “openFT commands”.
Notes for the FT administrator
The menu interface is a more user-friendly possibility of executing almost the same functions that can be executed via the command interface, i.e.:
load and start the openFT load module,
modify the request file and the partner list,
activate the openFT instance,
control the use of resources,
request information about the openFT instance,
monitor the openFT instance,
request information on FT requests,
cancel/abort FT requests,
deactivate and reactivate file transfer requests submitted in the local system to individual remote FT systems,
deactivate the openFT instance,
terminate the openFT load module,
administer the local keys of an openFT instance,
administer FTAC admission sets and FTAC admission profiles if required,
administer remote openFT instances on any platforms.
In contrast, the menu interface allows you to edit the members PARM, TSOJOB, JCLJOB, PRTJOB, TSOVVJOB, TSONVJOB, TSOVFJOB, SUCCMSG, FAILMSG and TNSTCPIP of the FT parameter library directly. The FT parameter library itself, however, must already exist.
Exceptions
For the FJGEN command for setting the form installation parameters the menu interface does not provide a function which corresponds to this command; you must enter the command directly in order to perform the corresponding installation step. The parameters you set in this installation step, however, can be displayed at any time via a menu.
You cannot process the member FNAMECTB in the FT parameter library via the menu interface.
Please refer to the manual "openFT (z/OS) - Installation and Operation" for details on FJGEN on the FT parameter library.
In a running TSO session, you can perform these allocations manually. This means, for example, that you can also change the openFT instance within the TSO session. You should store the necessary commands in a CLIST and execute these in TSO mode. You can also record the name of this CLIST in a LOGON procedure so that the commands are always executed when you log on.