Hi Folks,
I hope that this message will be useful to a large number of
people, and will make communication between logged-on TSO users easier.
We have just resurrected an old TSO command to conveniently send
messages to another TSO user. The "TO" command is much easier to use
than the SEND command, and it sends the message via a TPUT to the other
user's ASID. Syntax of the TO command is:
TO tsouser Unquoted message with any number of spaces
The TO command (version on File 300 of the Updates page of
www.cbttape.org) has been updated to accept 8-character userids as the
destination for the message.
In TSO READY mode (for which the command was originally designed),
you can include quotes in the message, and it will be sent as is. Also,
in TSO READY mode, the message can and will remain, in mixed case.
However, ISPF sometimes does tricks to TSO commands and messages, and
some (but not all) ISPF screens will uppercase the entire command before
it is sent. Also, ISPF will usually demand an even number of quotes,
which TO sends asis. So if you send the message under ISPF:
TSO TO userid It doesn't matter
then ISPF will demand an even number of quotes, and will not send the
message. On the other hand, if you say:
TSO TO userid It doesn't matter '
then the message is sent asis, with the two quotes there, as coded. And
the recipient will get the message as follows:
It doesn't matter ' IBMUSER
This is just a peculiarity of ISPF and it doesn't have to do with
the coding of the TO command.
I hope this will help people to communicate with other logged on
TSO users more easily.
All the best of everything to all of you.
Sincerely, Sam
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