Re: Suggestion for a new System Request option

Seeing as I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for IBM to do anything with
this, even if you submitted a proper request, I'd suggest another way.

There are ways for one job to access another job's QTEMP library.  This
gets under the covers a bit and I'm not certain whether the technique
uses supported APIs.  But I have seen the MI guys talking about this.

So, assuming you can get access to another job's QTEMP, you *should* be
able to accomplish pretty much what you're asking for.  Not as easy as
a Systems-Request thingy, but more flexible, as you'd be able to use
this in batch jobs as well.

HTH, Dan

--- Albert York wrote:
> >The System/36 used to have an option on the system request menu
> which was
> >called something like 'Set latch flag'. All it did was turn on an
> indicator
> >that you could test in your program. Then your program could take
> the
> >appropriate action. I used it for ending long searches for example.
> I would
> >really like to see something like that on the AS/400. Right now the
> only
> >choice we have is to end the whole program, which is pretty heavy
> handed.
> >
> >Here is what I suggest.
> >
> >1.      In your program, create a data area in QTEMP with a name
> like
> >QSYSRQSOPT. It would be 51 bytes long. The first 50 bytes would
> contain a
> >description (i.e. 'End Search').
> >2.      When the user presses System Request the description is
> displayed as
> >an option.
> >3.      If the option is taken then the last byte of the data area
> is set to
> >'1'.
> >4.      Your program could check the data area periodically. If the
> flag is
> >set then it is time to cancel what it is doing.
> >
> >It seems like this wouldn't be too difficult to implement.
> >
> >Albert York

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