Re: Holding Console

2008-07-21 Thread Howard Rifkind
Thanks for the replies. No, I'm not going into VM to muck around there, home mortage, college loans to pay...can afford to loose job. Well when OP1 (using PROP) is in hold mode then command submitted to the Operator from else where won't get executed until the hold is cleared. Get a

Re: Holding Console

2008-07-21 Thread Scott Rohling
On OP1: CP TERM HOLD OFF (turns of HOLDING and just uses ...MORE) And: CP TERM MORE 0 0 if you want the screen to clear immediately without a ...MORE Scott Rohling On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the replies. No, I'm not going into

Re: Holding Console

2008-07-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well when OP1 (using PROP) is in hold mode then command submitted to the Operator from else where won't get executed until the hold is cleared. Get a message back saying something like there is console input waiting and

Re: Holding Console

2008-07-21 Thread Kris Buelens
Oh, but now you shed some extra light. You write: something like there is console input waiting This is not really related to TERM HOLD OFF or MORE x y It means someone sent a console command to the user, and the user didn't read it yet. In case of PROP it means CMS didn't read it yet, often a

Re: Holding Console

2008-07-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 07/21/2008 at 11:11 EDT, Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the replies. No, I'm not going into VM to muck around there, home mortage, college loans to pay...can afford to loose job. Well when OP1 (using PROP) is in hold mode then command submitted to the

Re: Holding Console

2008-07-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 07/21/2008 at 11:35 EDT, Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, but now you shed some extra light. You write: something like there is console input waiting This is not really related to TERM HOLD OFF or MORE x y It means someone sent a console command to the user, and the

Re: Holding Console

2008-07-21 Thread Kris Buelens
I know Alan (as you probably know), but I wanted to keep things simple. Now my turn to throw stones (or pebbles) - ain't it about time CP SLEEP allows shorter periods than 1 second? (PIPE DELAY can be used to sleep shorter) - CP SEND uses the same RC to signal almost all problems it can get - So

Re: Holding Console

2008-07-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 07/21/2008 at 12:36 EDT, Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know Alan (as you probably know), but I wanted to keep things simple. Now my turn to throw stones (or pebbles) - ain't it about time CP SLEEP allows shorter periods than 1 second? (PIPE DELAY can be used to sleep

Re: Holding Console

2008-07-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
Though we already concluded the OP was on the wrong track, it is not hard to write a pipeline stage that retries the CP SEND command a few times with minimal delay when the recipient is in CF. But since you don't get the output, it is not really suitable for reliable communication. Rob

Re: Holding Console

2008-07-18 Thread Ronald van der Laan
Howard, You can look at the RDEVSFLG field in the RDEV block. It is pointed to via VMDRTEM field in the user's VMDBK. See http://www.vm.ibm.com/pubs/cp530/VMDBK.HTML and http://www.vm.ibm.com/pubs/cp530/RDEV.HTML Ronald van der Laan

Re: Holding Console

2008-07-18 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 07/18/2008 at 03:48 EDT, Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a way to tell if a users console is being held 'HOLDING' at the bottom right of the screen. I would like to find this out from an exec procedure. The general answer is no unless you are