The default action of a menu item is to return an exception value equal to the item's ID. You can change the default action of a particular item by using the MENU-ITEM configuration variable.
Use MENU-ITEM in exactly the same fashion as the KEYSTROKE variable, except that the last entry on the line is the menu's ID, not the key code. For example, to cause a menu item whose ID is "200" to act the same as the Delete key, use the following:
MENU-ITEM Edit=Delete 200
Alternately, you could cause menu item "200" to call the "notepad" sample program by using:
MENU-ITEM Hot-Key="notepad" 200
You can program these entries in COBOL by using the SET ENVIRONMENT verb. For example,
SET ENVIRONMENT "MENU-ITEM" TO "Edit=Delete 200"