Re: QSYSOPR message queue

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete,

Pete Hall wrote:

> At 07:42 05/19/2000 , Jeff Schmehl wrote:
> >What's the best way to prevent users from deleting messages in the QSYSOPR
> >message queue?  I need some people to have access to this but I want to
> >prevent them from clearing messages.
>
> You can do this with security. I did it at a previous employer, and if I
> remember the magic incantation (I may not) it was simply a matter of
> removing "delete" and "update" data access to the qsysopr message queue.
> for *public. The net effect was that user jobs could add messages to the
> queue, and users could view the queue, but they couldn't answer or remove
> messages.

I got stumped by this same question a few years ago [I'm sure its recorded in 
the
archives :(  ]

A user needs *opr and *add to place messages on the queue, and *opr, *read &
*add  (rather than *upd) to answer messages.  It turns out that when you answer 
a
message you are actually adding a new message to the queue that answers the old
message (that's why we see inquiry messages show up twice in the queue).  You're
not actually (or directly?) changing the old message.  Weird, but that is the 
way
it is.

jte



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