I can only surmise that the message:
userid not receiving; disconnected
was designed in the good "olden days" (we both remember those!) when
usually the only ones logged onto VM were real people, not service
machines.
If you were expecting an acknowledgement from the person on the other end
along the lines of:
"Sure, go ahead and re-assemble all of the DMK modules during the day
while the interactive usage is high, it's OK with me",
then you'd want to know that they were not connected, recalling that Mom
and Dad rules do not apply at work, thus keeping you from shooting your
career in the foot. (Anyone with kids knows that they think that "Mom and
Dad rules" are that "silence is acceptance") ;-)
Nowadays, most of the "users" are often service machines. However... we
can easily code around that, e.g.:
EXECIO 0 CP (STRING MSG targetid Does anyone know what time it is?
PIPE CP MSG targetid Does anyone really care?
Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
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With this setup:
Disconnected service machine
MSG ON
Console spooled
When a user sends a msg to that machine, the result is:
The message is displayed in the spooled console log.
The sender gets the message "HCPMFS057I svmid not receiving; disconnected"
Why does the sender get the message? Clearly, the message was received.
That is, it was received unless you have some interesting definition of
"received".
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Richard Schuh
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