IMO, QEDIT is the proper way to go. "hanging" a WTOR to do normal operator interaction is easier (less code), but does not seem as "professional" to me. Perhaps it's because I get calls, at times, from newbies who ask "There's a reply required to a message. What do I do?". I don't like replying "Ignore it.". That can then become their general attitude: "Hum, I don't know what that means, but I'm told to ignore that type of message, so I will." And, of course, they do it for the worse possible WTOR. And then finally call when the system comes to a dead halt, usually after an hour or so of non-productive waiting.
I wish that the MODIFY command worked more like VSE's STXIT OC. The Modify requires that you either WAIT or check the ECB. I wish it would drive an interrupt routine instead. On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 10:19 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In <1285172949175994.wa.wfarrellus.ibm....@bama.ua.edu>, on 10/05/2011 > at 01:36 PM, Walt Farrell <wfarr...@us.ibm.com> said: > > >But if you really did mean that you want the operator to send a > >message (to someone), and get a response, nothing I've heard of > >allows that. > > An application can use QEDIT to enable the operator to send it a > message with MODIFY. > -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
