Re: SNDBRKMSG

[Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Glen !

If this is just a "regular" backup and not a full system save or something, why
not run it in Batch ?

Chuck

Glenn Gundermann wrote:

> 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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