Our mainframe is scheduled for termination. As such, bits and pieces are being turned off. Management edicts wants "no sudden surprise screens and error messages" when a function is killed. A "landing screen" has been proposed that would do the required hand holding with messages like "Thanks for playing" "This is gone" "Call someone who cares" and maybe "Counselors are on call for your withdrawal needs"
I am scrambling for ways to implement this to kill one thing and replace it with another things that is not dead (yet).. The SOLVE product is basically a session switcher that takes your 3270 terminal to another active VTAM application. I am wondering if there is a way to change the menu item on the switching screen to replace it with the "landing screen". For example, it currently connects you to a CICS region. Is there something else it could do within Solve to just blast them "landing screen" when they select the menu item? I am not a CICS programmer I just start and stop CICS regions. I am picturing some kind of 3270 based transaction that could just present the "landing screen" and nothing else. I would then replace my current welcome menu with this new transaction. Ending this transaction could even be used to initiate a sign off from CICS. Anybody have ideas on how to get from here to there and allow this mainframe to die politely and with dignity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
