Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell

2009-10-21 Thread Sebastian Welton
I've done similar things in the past but in different ways: - routed all messages to z/OS where it was handled by the automation pack age there - used SA IOM (formerly AF/Remote) which would allow you to do all that a nd more, including the automation side of things. A very nice tool - possibly

Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell

2009-10-19 Thread Colin Allinson
Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu wrote:- Colin--It sounds as if you are not really looking for a way to manage or respond to what shows up on a screen. Yes, absolutely, I need a look but not touch facility for external monitoring You merely want to handle all of the secuser'd messages that

Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell

2009-10-17 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
I have a simple fullscreen display program which can get its display data from rexx variables LINE.1 LINE.2 etc. You could update the stem suffixes by -1 and redisplay every time you get a new incoming message. The program is pretty basic, no colors or extended attributes, and only supports 24

Writing a screen scrolling shell

2009-10-16 Thread Colin Allinson
I need to get a screen to behave in a slightly different way to the standard 3270 screen. I need to collect SECUSER messages and get them to push up the screen, (so the oldest fall off the top), rather than filling the screen to MORE... and starting again with a clear screen. I did look to

Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell

2009-10-16 Thread Kris Buelens
OTTOSCR is an old tool to make fullscreen CMS scroll, don't know if it still runs http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?OTTOSCR With ROI, you'd have to write the new line with VSCREEN WRITE and linenumber 0, then maybe some WINDOW command to position the window at the end (if the

Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell

2009-10-16 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Colin Allinson cgallin...@amadeus.com wrote: I did look to see if there was any way I could do this with Fullscreen CMS and I could not see how (although I have never really got to grips with this tool and there may be some configuration option that may make it

Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell

2009-10-16 Thread Colin Allinson
Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com Wrote (in part) :- OTTOSCR is an old tool to make fullscreen CMS scroll, don't know if it still runs. Kris, Thank you. I will certainly look at OTTOSCR. Even if it does not run out of the box, it may give me a good basis to start from. To explain a little

Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell

2009-10-16 Thread Colin Allinson
Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com Wrote :- Yes, we can ... I recall using the CMS PIpelines fullscr stage to build one that imitated the NetView style where the insertion point for the new line is rolling over the screen (to save bandwidth). With some extra effort you could also do

Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell

2009-10-16 Thread Tracy Dean
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:42:58 +0200, Colin Allinson cgallin...@amadeus.co m wrote: I need to get a screen to behave in a slightly different way to the standard 3270 screen. I need to collect SECUSER messages and get them to push up the screen, (so the oldest fall off the top), rather than fillin

Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell

2009-10-16 Thread Huegel, Thomas
this exec you can have, no gaurentees. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Colin Allinson Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 7:49 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell Rob van der Heij

Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell

2009-10-16 Thread David Boyes
If you have PERFKIT, set up an additional virtual machine that has all data collection turned off, and use it in basic mode. It does a very nice job of being a scrolling operator display, and has nice message filtering and highlighting already built in.

Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell

2009-10-16 Thread Thomas Kern
I have two systems with PROP in OPERATOR sending messages to OP1. The real operators log onto OP1 for interaction with the systems. One system uses Full-Screen CMS with OTTOSCR and the second system uses the PERFKIT program to manage the console traffic. The PERFKIT setup does a better job. /Tom

Re: Writing a screen scrolling shell

2009-10-16 Thread Jim Bohnsack
Colin--It sounds as if you are not really looking for a way to manage or respond to what shows up on a screen. You "merely" want to handle all of the secuser'd messages that are sent to some collector user. You said that you had tried VM:Operator, but that there were some problems. I use IBM's