Re: Subfiles in batch job

At 16:53 18.12.00 -0800, you wrote:


>Um.. uhh.. wow.  This is intriguing.  Tell me this then...
>
>Wouldn't it be possible to take a dumb tube and stick it out in an area
>and not sign it on.  Then have an RPG program that had the job do an
>Override to this display file write to the screen without waiting for
>a response.  All this going on in a never ending batch job.  So now I
>have a green screen slide show going on to a device that is not really
>secure, but it's not signed onto the system anyway, so no body can get
>access that way?

Nope. Prior to answering, i overrode (ist that correct? :-) the DSPF of one 
of my menu programs to my fifth Client Access session with sign-on display.

I went into my menu program. The session was locked.

On the allocated "device", i was in my menu program and could enter menu 
choices and saw other menus as long as i stayed in my overriden dspf. Then 
i called an application, another un-overriden dspf, and the original 
session awoke. As you expect, i could work there as usual. Then i returned 
to the menu.

Don't mix up - this is not a multi-job communication feature - it's just 
the use of more than one input device; processing is done by a single job, 
as it was before.



>Or even better yet, have it wait for a response now and then.  Or allow for
>input into the display file.  Then the program could change what it shows
>or whatever depending on what the person enters.  There is absolutely no way
>the person can get into the system since it's not signed on.  There is no
>interactive session waiting to get a command line too.

see the above...


>Or am I missing something?

yep.



Mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards

Anton Gombkötö

Avenum Technologie GmbH
Wien - Mattsee - Stuttgart
e-mail Office   :       mailto:Anton.Gombkoetoe@avenum.com
Homepage        :       http://www.avenum.com

Lest das Redbook / read the redbook "Who knew you could do that with RPG?":
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245402.html

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