RE: Saving a session's history

Norman:

I am unaware of any standard (IBM-endorsed/supported) way of replying to that 
message automatically. It can be done with either trickery or programming 
that's advanced enough to make the question moot anyway.

A trickery example... write to the Virtual Terminal APIs and process the screen 
by program. I suppose writing a telnet client function could work as well. 
Obviously this would also be advanced enough to make the question moot.

But in general, no, the user must respond... AFAIK.

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   7. RE: Saving a session's history (Norman Boyd)
>
>Is there a way to have the inquiry message answered automatically, either by 
>the system or some other application, so that the end user is not aware that 
>the screen copy is taking place?
>
>>>> qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx 04/29/04 03:49PM >>>
>
>STRCPYSCN is actually a cool solution to the original problem. A secondary 
>session is only required if the copy-screen output is being sent to another 
>display. If the output goes to a file, it can all be contained within the one 
>session.
>
>I put together an applications problem logging tool that worked in this way 
>and made it available to users via their <Attn> menues. When a user wanted to 
>log an issue and have application support look it over, they'd take the "Start 
>logging" menu option and answer 'Y' (or 'G' or whatever that required 
>character was) when asked if screen copying was okay.
>
>Then they'd go through the sequence that had problems or needed clarification. 
>When done, they'd take the "End logging" menu option.
>
>The logging tool created a new member to store the session in. It added an 
>index entry to track user, member name, application, etc., whatever info was 
>useful, and sent a message to application support saying "Hey, check this 
>[member] out."
>
>App support could take a complementary menu options to replay the session 
>including page-forward/page-backward, print the session, remove old sessions, 
>etc. Printing was partly through an LF that translated DSPF field attributes 
>and created a form suitable for other documentation. The printing aspect was 
>used as part of creating user guides, sample test scripts, etc.


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