Re: Redirecting Tape Drive Message

Joe,

You wrote:

>does anyone know how to force a copy of a message to another user 
>profile?
 
>here's the problem:
 
>when we do our nightly backup, i've noticed that the history log has a 
>message (sent from QSYSARB2) CPF6792 Device T2 needs to be cleaned. 
>(apparently not enough to stop the save.) A copy of the message gets 
>sent to QSYSOPR. the problem is that no one really monitors message 
>this MSGQ.  what i would like to do is have this message sent to 
>another user profile (or two) so that this message will "hit us in the 
>face" and we can clean the drive before it does stop the save.
 
>i realize that we should just have someone clean the drive every day 
>anyway,  but if we could get this message, we would know that someone is 
>not cleaning it (with the exception that it could be a bad tape).
 
 If no one is monitoring the QSYSOPR queue, it would be reasonable to 
 route ALL messages related to the tape drive to another queue.  If that 
 is an acceptable solution, the method is to change the device description 
 for the tape drive to specify another message queue.
 
 -- Carol
 
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