Re: Suggestion for a new System Request option

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Albert

It is possible to alter the system request options so if you can find one
you don't need, you could alter it to do what you are suggesting.

See here:

http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.nsf/1ac66549a21402188625680b0002037e/0184695b591ccb9f862565c2007d3358?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,system,request

Regards
Evan Harris

> The System/36 used to have an option on the system request menu which was
> called something like 'Set latch flag'. All it did was turn on an indicator
> that you could test in your program. Then your program could take the
> appropriate action. I used it for ending long searches for example. I would
> really like to see something like that on the AS/400. Right now the only
> choice we have is to end the whole program, which is pretty heavy handed.
>
> Here is what I suggest.
>
> 1.      In your program, create a data area in QTEMP with a name like
> QSYSRQSOPT. It would be 51 bytes long. The first 50 bytes would contain a
> description (i.e. 'End Search').
> 2.      When the user presses System Request the description is displayed as
> an option.
> 3.      If the option is taken then the last byte of the data area is set to
> '1'.
> 4.      Your program could check the data area periodically. If the flag is
> set then it is time to cancel what it is doing.
>
> It seems like this wouldn't be too difficult to implement.
>
> Albert York