As organizations change and grow, administering end user access to business applications can become complex and time consuming. The company's IT function will often become a bottleneck, unable to process requests efficiently and expediently.
CENTRAL® Menu offers a simpler approach that allows greater levels of security and control to be gained with less administrative effort. User access administration can be devolved to non-technical personnel, while end users benefit from a simple and consistent interface for accessing a variety of different IBM i business applications.
With its rich array of advanced features, CENTRAL® Menu allows you to easily manage complex requirements involving multiple systems, divisions, locations, and multi-language menus. Menu administration can be centralized or decentralized, and built-in audit support is provided to make the task of regulatory compliance simple and easy.
Features
Easily manage complex menu requirements involving multiple systems, divisions, locations, and languages.
Simplified User setup
Rapidly set up new users with menu options, print queues, and an initial library list - everything that's needed to start using the IBM i
Devolved administration
Share and devolve responsibility for administering a specific set of options and menus to one or many non-technical administrators
Increase administrator productivity
Copy and move entire divisions; options or option groups; or single users or sub-menus to other CENTRAL® Menu instances running on your network
Control access to your systems
Limit user access to include only what is needed. Use built-in scheduling to restrict option availability to set days or times
Multiple environments
Easily create and test menus, sub-menus, and options in separate areas before making them available to users
Customize menu processing
Programmatically control your environmental requirements, where necessary, using flexible Exit programs
Lock out divisions
Gain greater control of your systems using restricted functions that enable administrators to lock-out divisions and set up separate libraries and options for each
Manage packaged application menus
Standardize the management of both in-house and packaged software menus, without making users access in-house options through packaged application menus
Improve job control
Interactively respond to problems, obtain a list of active users at a moment's notice for unscheduled shutdowns, or simply monitor the workflow of a new employee
One-time sign-on and pass through
Allow your users to sign on to one IBM i server and then seamlessly access applications on any other IBM i on your corporate network
Prevent sensitive option suspension
Avoid unwanted suspension of individual options by preventing users from exiting before task completion
Prevent sign-off from sensitive options
Condition options to prevent users from signing off while that option is suspended and active
