User Message Queue indicator icon on the Windows client

[G Armour <garmour400m@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hopefully I'm not the only one working this week, so this message won't
fall into the void. <g>

I've pondered the following user message queue dilemna.  I posted a long
ways back on getting notification of a message being sent to the user
message queue (UMQ) and being able to delete a message from ALL of my
display sessions.  I have, and will continue to have, my UMQ set to
DLVRY(*Notify); I refuse to have my session interrupted by a break
message.  DLVRY(*Hold), by itself, doesn't work since no session will
display a notification.

I am almost certain that I had this capability in some form when using
some third-party emulation software years ago (maybe
Netsoft-flavor-of-the-month?), say mid-90's.  It seemed to me that the
notification appeared NOT as an indicator at the bottom of the session
but, rather, some indicator in the Windows system tray.  This would make
sense, because I could be looking at any session, or even none, and I
could receive notification in the Windows system tray in the form of a
flashing icon, bring up any session, display and delete the message - at
this stage in my ramblings, I'm guessing that the UMQ was set to
DLVRY(*Hold), which would allow a message to be deleted from any session.

For this scenario to work, however, there would have to be a mechanism by
which the AS/400 would have to send signals to the client PC; turn "on"
the Windows system tray indicator whenever a new message arrived in the
UMQ, and turn "off" the Windows system tray indicator whenever the user
displays the UMQ (same as the 400 does now for the session having the UMQ
allocated with DLVRY(*Notify)).  Also, obviously, there must be some type
of client side app that listens for these signals and controls the Windows
system tray indicator.

We are using IBM's Client Access, um, iSeries Access for Windows V5R2.  I
know that the Programmer's Toolkit exists, but I have not seen anything in
there that addresses what I'm trying to do.  OS/400 is at V5R2.

Anybody done this?  Or does anyone know that it can or cannot be done?

TIA, GA

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