Re: System Request

Maybe the SYSREQ and ATTN aid keys should be treated differently
from the run of the mill aid keys, and be allowed if the Inhibit
flags are set?  SysReq AFAIK will toggle between SSCP and PLU, which
would allow you to possibly start up a new CICS session while another
one is going on.  At the very least, it will sometimes show a SYSREQ
Menu, that will allow you to do special things..  

The above comments could very possibly be incorrect,  It's been 15 
years since I used an IBM system as a user.

As a quick fix to Scott's problem, could he possibly hit the RESET 
key, and then the SysReq?

Bill Suetholz
 
On 23-May-2000 Jason M. Felice wrote:
> Scott Klement wrote:
>> 
>> I hate to be a pest again... :)
>> 
>> Someone recently posted a message stating that the system request key
>> and attention key aren't working when the keyboard is locked in the
>> current CVS sources.
>> 
>> I just ran into the same problem.  When the keyboard is locked, it seems
>> to ignore system request, in tn5250, xt5250 and gnome-5250.  This is a
>> big problem because it means that I can't abort a program that I started
>> without signing on in another window and killing the whole job.
>> 
>> Help!!?
>> 
> 
> Hmm.  There's this pending_aid thing which says we should queue the
> aidcode
> until....  I dunno...  effectively until the display is uninhibited.
> `cvs blame' is reporting it's Mike's fault <g>
> 
> I think it's trying to prevent sending an aid code (like Enter) when
> we're not
> in a read, but I think we should just inhibit in that case.  I'm not
> sure that's
> a big deal, since we should never get to handling the key if the display
> is X SYSTEM
> or X CLOCK (we queue the keys until the display is live again, unless of
> course it's
> SysReq, Attention, or Reset which we handle immediately).
> 
> Mike, what is pending_aid in display.[ch] for?
> 
> 
> -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
> (jfelice@cronosys.com)
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