In <[email protected]>, on 05/12/2015
at 02:57 PM, Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> said:
>Recently I discovered that if my 3270 OMVS session is hanging on
>an INPUT prompt while I type a comand the arrival of an
>unsolicited message steals the screen and loses my partial input.
That's a long standing problem with SO's 3270 support.
>But given what you say, I'd expect Support to simply say,
>"WAD; solution is PROFILE NOINTERCOM NOWTPMSG".
ITYM BAD. Have you tried submitting an RFE with a solid business case?
>And many decades ago, I learned that the notification is issued at
>the beginning of transmission, not at completion. I could issue
>the RECEIVE command when I got the notification and get "NO FILES
>AVAILABLE". PMR; WAD; "That's when the EXIT is entered"; with a
>snarky comment from Support that the TRANSMIT facility was not
>intended for such as "War and Peace".
Does IBM still have a duty manager and an escalation process? That
response is unprofessional and unacceptable.
I'm a TSO bigot but CP's handling of unsolicited messages on a 3270 is
much cleaner.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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