Thanks then the constant moving could prove a tedious time... instead is it possible to just have a blinking Message....
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote: > jagadishan perumal wrote: > > >I would like to Publish some message as a bulletin in mainframe(Should be > like message trailer - constantly moving from left to right). This message > should be like a information through which the mainframe users can know the > maintanance activity carried by the mainframe support group. > > Perhaps possible, but you did not said on what application and on > what 'mainframe'. > > If you want to do this in ISPF, it is possible, but as others kindly noted, > the > session's keyboard will be locked during the 'constantly moving' display. > > Sample *working* REXX: > > /*REXX*/ > "ISPEXEC LIBDEF ISPPLIB DATASET ID('....REXX.PANELS')" > "ISPEXEC LIBDEF ISPMLIB DATASET ID('...REXX.MESSAGES')" > ADDRESS "ISPEXEC" > "CONTROL DISPLAY LOCK" > "SETMSG MSG(POP000)" > "DISPLAY" > DO X = 1 TO 99999999 /* my zToy is a fast and furious toy ;) */ > END > > In MESSAGE dataset, member POP000: > > POP000 'MESSAGE TO BE SHOWN' .TYPE=NOTIFY .WINDOW=NORESP > ' ' > > You can expand the loop or modify the member POP000 to contains something > else (perhaps shifting to left the data inside quote one character at a > stage) > and then repeat that display and loop thing. > > But see that line: 'CONTROL DISPLAY LOCK' - The user still cannot type > anything at all. > > This is one possible working way to do something 'constantly moving'. > > HTH! > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
