Introduction

This section introduces you to the Super Natural Administration Application.

This section covers the following topics:


Administration Application Overview

Super Natural administration is an independent application with its own command processor. The users' part of Super Natural is called the Super Natural Processor.

The Super Natural Administration Application has three distinct sections as shown below:

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  • Super Natural
    You use the main part of the Super Natural Administration Application to maintain users, files (files, user files and superfiles) and libraries (public, common and private). The user interface conforms with the Super Natural Processor application.

  • Natural Report Manager
    Parts of Natural Report Manager are incorporated. You can modify a user's layout options using part of the Natural Report Manager Profile function. You can modify the Standard Title for your site from the Special Services menu using the Layout Editor.

  • Natural
    The Natural LIST command is incorporated. Choosing JCL Members from the Special Services menu is the same as issuing the following Natural commands:

    LOGON LIBRARY ZJCL
    LIST *

Administration Application User Interface

The user interface for Super Natural uses menus, screens and windows.

Object List Screens

Instead of the Description column found in the Processor application, the object list screens in the Administration Application have various information columns and do not have the Library and Library Type fields as shown below:

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> Navigation

The Modify Object screens and the Import Files Object list screen have > navigation fields for navigating between groups of settings or object types in the bottom left-hand corner of the processing area as in the sample below:

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Start of instruction setTo navigate between groups of settings or object types using > navigation

  • Mark the appropriate > navigation field with the cursor position or any non-blank character and press Enter.

    Or:
    Issue one of the following commands as appropriate:

    • >OPTIONS

    • >PROFILE

    • >USERS

    • >PUBLIC

    • >FILES

    • >LAYOUT

    • >PRIVATE

Note:
For further information on using the new Super Natural user interface, see Using Super Natural in the User's Guide.

Invoking the Super Natural Administration Application

Start of instruction setTo invoke the Super Natural Administration Application from a Super Natural session

  • Select the function Super Natural Administration on the Processor Main Menu.

    Or:
    Issue the MAINTENANCE command from the Main Menu.

    The Administration Menu appears:

     13:56                      ***** Super Natural *****                 1999-05-21
                                 - Administration Menu -                       SNM04
                                                                                    
                                                                                    
                                                                                    
                  USER  Users                                                       
                                                                                    
                  FILE  Files                                                       
                  SUPER Superfiles                                                  
                  USERF User Files                                                  
                                                                                    
                  LIB   Libraries                                                   
                  COMM  Common Libraries                                            
                                                                                    
                  SPEC  Special Services                                            
                                                                                    
                  PROC  Super Natural Processor                                     
                                                                                    
                                                                                    
                                                                                    
     Select Object                                                                  
     Command ===>                                                                   
     Enter-PF1---PF2---PF3---PF4---PF5---PF6---PF7---PF8---PF9---PF10--PF11--PF12---
           Help        Exit              Flip                                Canc   
    

Invoking the Super Natural Processor Application from the Administration Application

Start of instruction setTo invoke the Super Natural Processor application from the Administration Application

  • Issue the PROCESSOR command.

    The Super Natural Processor Main Menu appears.

    You can use the PROCESSOR Super-Natural-command command to execute Super Natural Processor commands directly from the Administration Application.

Start of instruction setTo execute a Super Natural Processor command directly from the Administration Application

  • Issue the PROCESSOR Super-Natural-command command.

    The Super Natural Processor command is executed.

Note:
You return to the Administration Application via the Super Natural Menu.

Command Overview

  User File Super File User File Lib. (U) (P) Lib. Member Lib. (C) Standard Title JCL Lib.
ADD X X X       X   X
MODIFY X X X X          
COPY X X X   X X      
DELETE X X X X X X X X  
INFO           X      
IMPORT X X              
MULTIMOD X X              
MEMBER         X        
EDIT               X X
LIST                 X
PRINT                 X
RENAME                 X
DISPLAY               X  
TEST               X  

As users of this documentation should already be familiar with using Super Natural, only direct commands are documented. For alternative methods of issuing commands, see Using Super Natural in the User's Guide.