----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, 13 May, 2006 3:21 PM Subject: Re: REXX program msg on the the MVS Console ?
> Lawrence, > > Many years ago I used to have REXX Clists running under NetView which wrote > messages using the WTO command to the MVS console, "highlighted" according > to how I had defined the colour for the "descriptor code" in the MPFLSTxx > member (.MSGCOLR parameter) of SYS1.PARMLIB. In a NetView REXX environment, > in essence, you can issue the WTO command with all the specifications > available to an Assembler programmer writing a WTO macro. > > One particular use I made of this flexibility was writing a message with > descriptor code 11, "critical eventual action". A message with "descriptor > code" 11 was retained on the display as "normal" messages rolled off and so > any such messages accumulate at the top of the display. When my automation > had detected that whatever I had started when I wrote the message had > finished successfully, I used the DOM command to cause the message not to be > retained any more. I seem to remember that these messages with "descriptor > code" 11 were yellow and "intense" while normal messages, and these special > messages once "DOMed", that is, logically deleted, were blue and "normal". > > Well, that's how it was in the early '90s when I wrote up this sort of stuff > in my NetView "automation" presentation and I would be surprised if it > didn't work the same way today. > > Chris Mason > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tsai Laurence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, 12 May, 2006 4:24 PM > Subject: REXX program msg on the the MVS Console ? > > > > Greetings, > > Would like to have the REXX program msg shown on the MVS console for > > OPERATOR highlight, is it doable ? > > > > > > Sincerely, > > Laurence > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
