Deleting a product or service

Except for Application Manager, you can delete any of the products or services in the Information Center Facility but do so with caution. You cannot delete Application Manager because all products and services in the Information Center Facility depend on it. Several services and one product have dependencies on other services. For example:

COURSES depends on NEWS.
COURSES, ENROLL, and PS/TSO depend on NAMES. Before users can use the mail facility in PS/TSO, the Information Center Facility administrator must create the master names directory.
ENROLL depends on USERTYPES and ISPF defaults.

Therefore, removing NEWS, NAMES, or USERTYPES could cause unpredictable results.

Possible ways to delete a product or service are:

Use Application Manager panels to delete all applications associated with the product or service and update any menu panels that contain an option for the product or service.
One advantage of using this method is that Application Manager dynamically updates the tutorial menus associated with the functional menus that you change.
Replace the first panel of the product or service by a dummy panel that you create. You can put the panel in the data set supplied by IBM® or in an installation-supplied data set. Use any of the dummy panels supplied by IBM (for example, the PROBLEM option panel, ICQGCM07) as a model.
A disadvantage of this method is that the tutorial remains unchanged.

Instead of deleting a product or service, you can limit its availability to selected users or groups of users. For example, if an accounting department requires certain products that general users do not need, you can define the applications for these products at the group level for that group. You can also copy down system level applications to the group or private level and then make the applications unavailable at the system level.

Note: You can make group and private Application Manager unavailable at the system level. To do this, copy down the applications for group and private Application Manager to the group level. Do not make the system level Application Manager unavailable. If you do, you will have difficulty maintaining your applications.

For information about how to use Application Manager to delete applications, change menu panels, and make applications unavailable, see or the on-line tutorial and help panels for Application Manager.