Re: Question on PIPEprogram THREEWAY

2010-04-28 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Florian florian.bi...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for answering my post. I see that there are several versions of the PIPE program. What I find strange is that I downloaded the books, especially CMS/TSO Pipelines Author's Edition 1.1.11 from the official IBM

Re: Question on PIPEprogram THREEWAY

2010-04-28 Thread Mike Walter
Florian, As described earlier, the original CMS Pipelines distributed with z/VM has been pretty much frozen in time. There a many, sad, boring internal IBM business and political reasons why that state has been reached. However to our great delight, the author has continued to enhance the

Re: Question on PIPEprogram THREEWAY

2010-04-28 Thread Florian Bilek
Hi Mike, Thank you for this information. As you say, I am concerned to modify and/ or use features from pipes that are not in the original delivery. We had already bad experiences using features not clearly supported by IBM in operational environments. So we are quite reluctant to use other

Re: Question on PIPEprogram THREEWAY

2010-04-28 Thread Florian Bilek
Scott, Thank you for that hint. That sample does exactly what I wanted to do. I must say that I am a little bit overwhelmed with the functionality of spe c. It has great functionality. Kind regards, Florian

Re: Question on PIPEprogram THREEWAY

2010-04-28 Thread Mike Walter
If you don't want to avail yourself of the CMS Pipelines Runtime Library, with all that it offers, then you should be looking in the manuals for the z/VM-distributed CMS Pipelines (the z/VM online HELP system is your friend, too! Enter: HELP PIPE). The Author's Edition specifically describes

Message Command

2010-04-28 Thread Billy Bingham
Hello All, If I send the following message to a logged on user will it be considered as one message or two messages. Note that it continues to second line. 09:57:44 * MSG FROM MAINT: LFU999 REXX LFUSERS to log off the LINUX users has completed successfully.

Re: Message Command

2010-04-28 Thread Mike Walter
It's one message as long as you only issue one: CP MSG userid ...text... What you're seeing on the screen may be based partly on the user's: CP TERMINAL LINESIZE or whatever means you are using to see their console session. See Usage Note 1 when entering: HELP CP MSG 1. If a message is issued

Re: Message Command

2010-04-28 Thread Kris Buelens
If you've got the right privilege class (by default CP class B), there is the MSGNOH command (Message without header). In the sample, the user would see LFU999 REXX LFUSERS to log off the LINUX users has completed successfully. Note too that if you'd intercept the message with WAKEUP, PIPE

Re: Message Command

2010-04-28 Thread Billy Bingham
MSGNOH, that is what I wanted. Just with my limited knowledge of VM I couldn't remember. Or was it my age and memory. Two things go when you get old. Your memory and I forget the other one :) Thanks Kris, Billy On 28 Apr 2010 at 22:22, Kris Buelens wrote: If you've got the right