Chapter 3-13: Automatic and Optional Children

Introduction to Automatic and Optional Children

Child processes are simply processes that are invoked from another process (the parent process). If they are invoked as a result of an option selection, the child process is optional. If they are invoked by APPX without user intervention, the child process is automatic.

APPX does, however, impose certain restrictions on the types of processes you can invoke children from. You can invoke optional children from interactive images in menu and input processes only. You can invoke automatic children from frames in input, output, inquiry, update, and job processes.

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