RE: SNDBRKMSG

It's kind of cheesey, but how about hitting enter a couple of times on your
workstation after the job is started to "keyboard buffer" a few answers
before you go home.

Not like I did this or anything, I did it the macho way and wrote a break
handling program...

Art Tostaine, Jr.
CCA, Inc.
Parlin, NJ  08859


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Glenn Gundermann
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 1998 3:26 PM
> To: Midrange List
> Subject: SNDBRKMSG
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> Did the SNDBRKMSG always break even if the message queue is in *HOLD
> status?  I thought by putting a message queue on hold, it
> would hold all
> the messages.  The help on SNDBRKMSG says it will always break
> regardless of the message queue status but I can't remember it being
> this way before.  We are on V4R2.
>
> Did IBM change this at some release?
>
> The reason I am asking is that my nightly backup program does
> a CHGMSGQ
> *usrprf *HOLD and CHGMSGQ *wrkstn *HOLD so no messages will interrupt
> the backup that is running at the console.  Some twit
> programmer sent a
> break message to *ALLWS instead of my workstation at 2:11am and this
> interrupted the backup program.
>
> Is there a way to stop break messages from breaking on the
> screen or do
> I have to write a break message handling routine?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Glenn Gundermann
> Ronald A. Chisholm Limited
> Toronto
>
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