RE: Auto Replying To Message AMX0213

[Dave Shaw <daveshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a word - no.  MAPICS doesn't send messages to QSYSOPR by message ID, unless 
they've changed it recently. They retrieve the first-level text for the message 
from the message file and send that as a text message to the queue, then send a 
second text message requesting the reply.  The only successful way I've ever 
seen to auto-respond to MAPICS messages in QSYSOPR is to have a program that 
'reads' each message from the queue and then replies appropriately. They chose 
this approach when they ported MAPICS I to the S/38 25 years ago and have never 
changed it.  It's frustrated me more than once.

Dave Shaw

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "MAPICS ERP System Discussion" <mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 12:32 PM
Subject: RE: Auto Replying To Message AMX0213


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> I know you can add an automatic reply to messages that are generated by
> OS/400, could you setup this message to do the same?
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> Steve Jones
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> Doug,
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> A few of options.
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> 1. If you have client access/operations management.  You can create a
> message monitor to automatically respond to the message.
> 2. You can acquire a third party tool such as Robot.
> 3. You can write your own system monitor program.  Tough, unless your used
> to passing parameters into and out of the system level messages.
> 4. Change your job queue defaults to eliminate unnecessary conflicts.
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> I would caution you.  There are very good reasons why MAPICS provides the
> conflict messages.  If you by bypass them automatically, you have a
> substantial chance of corrupting your database.  If you're going to do
> this,
> I'd suggest you have good, tested backup processes in place.
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> Kevin Fox
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Morrison, Doug [mailto:dmorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 8:53 AM
> To: MAPICS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Auto Replying To Message AMX0213
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> This question is really more AS/400 related than MAPICS related but I
> thought I would try here.  We are running MAPICS XAR6 on and AS/400
> several times a weeks we get message AMX0213-(MM) E AM-0213 JOB
> AMC0824313 HAS CONFLICTS (1,2), sent to the QSYSOPR message queue
> because someone is trying to do a cost roll while someone else is in
> item master maintenance.  Almost always the conflict is only temporary
> and we respond to the message with a 2.
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> We don't have a dedicated computer operator that monitors for these
> types of messages.  Instead we have a program the monitor the QSYSOPR
> message queue and when it finds a message the needs a reply it pages one
> of the programmers.   We would like to modify this program so that if it
> finds this message to automatically respond to it with a 2 instead of
> paging the programmer.  I have made a few different attempts at doing
> this but can't seem to get it to work.  Has anyone done this or have any
> samples of how to programmatically respond to an inquiry message in a
> message queue.