On Wednesday, 07/16/2008 at 12:15 EDT, Adam Thornton 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > No.  You'll also have the opportunity to delay the nag message for 3
> > minutes or 14.5 hours (your choice).  The messages will go to the
> > system
> > operator, but in a way that is not visible to system automation.  ;-)
> 
> Awwww, can't we have a z/VM dialog box with:
> 
> "The system will now reboot.  Click OK to proceed.
> [I accept the horrible situation in which you have left be because
> you have given me no choice, uh, I mean OK]"   ?
> 
> I guess I need to write up a requirement.

In order to be more democratic and accommodating, we could have a CANCEL 
button that said:
  "CANCEL not allowed.  You must press OK.  Press CANCEL to press OK. 
Press OK to CANCEL the CANCEL and then press OK."

This will, of course, be an unnumbered message whose meaning is obvious.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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