Re: Message of the day at 5250 signon

Hello Marc,

Am 08.11.2022 um 17:59 schrieb Marc Rauzier <marc.rauzier@xxxxxxxxx>:

I am not aware of such a system driven capability. In the past, I used a data-area to store MOTD and a display file inside users initial program to show the content of this data-area and request the user to hit Enter to continue. This is not exactly the behavior of MOTD on Unix/Linux based systems but it was accepted. You have also to have a small tool to update the data-area content. You can include some message validity date/time window as well.

Thanks, this is a helpful hint: To know there's no such thing. I strongly want to have this message display as unobtrusive as possible, just a mere replacement of the usual copyright message in the INLMNU after signon. But still be visible. And it should be done without tweaking user profiles. If a user already has an initial startup program, things will quickly become… hairy to handle.

So I'll re-read https://ibmdocs.pocnet.net/SC41-5715-00.pdf (Application Display Programming). PDF Page 303 mentions "Program menus". I guess, I need to dig into this topic to achieve my goal. I hope it's possible to read the message from a message file, because I'd expect that a user then can place the cursor on the text and press F1 to get the second level text, if he desires so.

Some details are revealed starting page 312. The example shown is very generic and to mimic the IBM provided menus easily created though SDA, or or panel group menus (command line!) might be challenging when done "by hand".

Oof. :-)

:wq! PoC