The Printer Management menu contains programs for setting up system printers, specifying default printers for a single user or all users, and creating batch print requests.

See Printers for details.

Use programs from the Batch Processing/Daemon menu to set up background jobs and manage and monitor daemon processes, which run in the background and perform required utility tasks when the system is being used.

See Batch Processing and Daemons for details.

The System Control menu contains critical control programs that must be set up before the system is used, that affect all users, domains, and entities.

See System Control.

CIM (computer integrated manufacturing) is one way to load legacy or non-Progress data into the QAD database. Using CIM, data can be added using standard program validation.

See CIM Interface for details.

The system provides utilities for monitoring database size, performing dumps and loads, reloading archive files, and managing database sequences. Delete/archive followed by dump/load is the standard means of controlling database size and fragmentation in Progress databases.

User licensing utilities and programs for managing time zones are also included in database management.

See Database Management for details.

A number of system-wide reports and utilities are provided on the System Administration menu.

The system cross-reference programs display information about field, program, and table relationships in your database. If you customize your implementation, this is an essential set of programs.

The system can use a Progress application server (AppServer) to run applications remotely. The AppServer must be defined first to make it available.

See Reports and Utilities for details.

In addition to using such tools as Design Mode and user-defined fields to modify the way component-based QAD applications work, you also can customize business component code for an installed application using a standard Progress 4GL editor.

See Customizing Component-Based Functions.