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managing menu customizations


Notes:

The most reliable way to ensure that menu customizations will not be affected by HFS updates is to keep customizations in Client-Specific (CS) menus; however, if you also make changes to existing non-CS menus, you will need to track these changes and possibly re-integrate them after each HFS.

It should be possible to automate much of the process using suprtool, datanow, or your favorite SQL database utility. Customizations that are made using the various NUUPJB screens are stored in several datasets, including qs-quest-mstr (questions), qs-menu-dtl (menus), nq-next-mstr (masks), and nq-jcl-dtl (JCL). One possible approach to scripting customization management would be to extract snapshots of these sets before and after customizations are applied, then cross-reference both snapshots with updated data after an HFS.

Another potentially useful utility program is sy613, which reports all the masks that a given question is called from.