How many submenus can I create in TPX using Tiered Menus?

Products

• TPX - Session Management
• Vman Session Management for z/OS

Issue/Introduction

How many submenus can I create in TPX using Tiered Menus?

Environment

Release: NVINAM00200-5.4-TPX-Session Management-Access Management package
Component:

Resolution

There is a maximum of 35 submenus, or "flavors" of menu, that you can define.

The number of submenus is limited by several factors:

1. Each submenu must have a unique Owner Key which can have one of 36 possible values: 0-9 or A-Z.
2. A RETURN session/tier is also required and reserves the use of TPXTIERX. So in effect this leaves 35 submenus that you can define.
3. You can have submenus up to a maximum of 35 levels deep.  Submenu tiers (or menu levels) are indicated by the Tier Level TPXTIERx, where x is 0-9 or A-Z and TPXTIERX is reserved for RETURN.

You can also have multiple submenus with only a few tiers. For example, you can have a structure that has menus only two layers deep (TPXTIER0 and TPXTIER1 ...plus the RETURN TPXTIERX) and one or more of these levels can contain multiple submenus.

			Tier Lvl or Sessid	Owner Key	Member Key	Invisible
TSO			TPXTIER0	5	0	N
	TSO1		sessid	Null	5	Y
	TSO2		sessid	Null	5	Y
	TSO3		sessid	Null	5	Y
CICS			TPXTIER0	6	0	N
	CICS1		sessid	Null	6	Y
	CICS2		sessid	Null	6	Y
	CICS3		sessid	Null	6	Y
SYSPROG			TPXTIER0	7	0	N
	NETVIEW		TPXTIER1	8	7	Y
		NETVIEW1	sessid	Null	8	Y
		NETVIEW2	sessid	Null	8	Y
		NETVIEW3	sessid	Null	8	Y
	SYSVIEW		TPXTIER1	9	7	Y
		SYSVIEW1	sessid	Null	9	Y
		SYSVIEW2	sessid	Null	9	Y
		SYSVIEW3	sessid	Null	9	Y
RETURN			TPXTIERX	Null	Null	Y

 

The above table is based upon the example for Tiered Menus that is described in the CA TPX Programming Guide.

Note that only TPXTIER0 needs Invisible = N. All other tier levels and sessions in the submenu configuration should have Invisible= Y.

Tiered Menu support was introduced with TPX 5.3.

Additional Information

Since "Invisible" is an important parameter with tiered menu design, you should restrict update access of this field within the User Self-Maintenance Class assigned to most users.