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SDA, or Screen Design Aid, is a DDS editing tool that lets you do quasi-WYSWIG design & maintenance of DDS for display files.
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'''SDA''', or ''Screen Design Aid'', is a DDS editing tool that lets you do quasi-WYSWIG design & maintenance of DDS for display files.  It comes with [[OS/400]] as part of [[ADTS/400]] and it was also available on [[S/36]] [[SSP]].
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== SDA Features ==
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Design and/or modify
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* Display Record Formats
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* Application Menus
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* Subfiles
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Fill in the blank format
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Generates DDS specifications, menu, display file source, message file for menus
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Some knowledge of [[DDS]] keywords needed.
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Extensive support for testing displays and individual indicators, without running the actual program that the screens are to be used with.

Revision as of 12:23, 11 June 2005

SDA, or Screen Design Aid, is a DDS editing tool that lets you do quasi-WYSWIG design & maintenance of DDS for display files. It comes with OS/400 as part of ADTS/400 and it was also available on S/36 SSP.

SDA Features

Design and/or modify

  • Display Record Formats
  • Application Menus
  • Subfiles

Fill in the blank format

Generates DDS specifications, menu, display file source, message file for menus

Some knowledge of DDS keywords needed.

Extensive support for testing displays and individual indicators, without running the actual program that the screens are to be used with.