Re: Redirecting Tape Drive Message

Neil Palmer wrote:

> You can create an optional message queue called QSYSMSG in library QSYS.
> The system will direct important messages there, in addition to QSYSOPR.
> HOWEVER - I don't know if it considers the lonely cry of 'clean me' from
> the tape drive to be important enough to send to QSYSMSG.  :-)
> (Check Chapter 8 "Working with messages" in the CL Programming book for
> messages sent to QSYSMSG).
>

Somewhere in the far reaches (not logged on right now) we created a little
command we called ECHOMSG to forward messages to a LPOC (Lucky person on call)
which would perform a receive message and then do a send message to the lucky
one.

The lucky one could not answer the message, just receive notification that it 
was
issued.  Beats a panic call at 4am :-)

It also worked on the QSYSMSG message queue, which I believe the OS says, "If 
you
build it I will come" .

It was something we wrote under V2R3 for UPS monitor which required a CHGSYSVAL
to QUPSMSGQ , but I have not revisited it since but there were a bunch of 
CPIxxxx
messages that you could monitor for and could program response to.  We chose the
option to forward the message and require a dialup response.  The technique (I'm
sure) has been expanded and may still suit your needs.

BTW, I just checked the in-house hard copy and it's still Chap 8 in the CL
Programmers Guide (SC21-8077-x) as of V3R0M5 ... we've been trying to save trees
ever since ...

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