MESSAGE Use the MESSAGE co.mand to transmit message text to a specified userid
or to the primary system operator, or as the primary system operator, to send text te ene er all logged-en users. If the user designated to receive the aessage is not logged on or has suppressed the receiving
of messages, the aessage is not transaitted and the sender receives a
diagnostic aessage to this effect. If you send a aessage to ALL you
receive a diagnostic aessage for every user with message typing
suppressed. A message that is not received by a user is not saved and
aust be sent at a later tiae when the user is receiving messages. The is displayed at the terminal when the terminal is ready to
rece1ve output. If a typewriter terminal, or a display terminal having AUTOREAD set ON, is entering data, the aessage is held until a carriage
return is received. If you want the users to receive aessages automatically when they log on. see the class B SET command. The foraat
of the Class A and B MSG command is: Message MSG !here:
{
ALL. } asgte xt user1d
* OPerator ALL is for operator use only. It allows hia to broadcast a message to all logged-on users.
userid
*
is a single user who is to receive the message.
the asterisk (*) specifies that the user is sending the message to himself. OPERATOR specifies that the message is to be sent to the priaary system operator regardless of his userid. msgtext specifies the text of the message that is to be transmitted. hh:aa:ss
As many characters may be entered as will fit on the remainder of the input line. !SG FROK OPERATOR: msgtext is the format of the message received by a specified users or all users
fro. the system operator. hh:ma:ss !SG FROK userid: asgtext is the format of the message sent to another user or to the system
operator, where userid is the name of the sender.
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hb: •• :ss !SG FRO! LOGONxxx: .sgtext
This is the format of a message sent from a user of the V!/370 syste. to
a specified user or to a system operator. This message indicates that
the user has not yet achieved logon status. xxx denotes the real line
address from which the !ESSAGE command was issued. !Qte: For all of the above responses: hh:m.:ss is the time in hours:minutes:seconds wben the message was sent
to the User. If the user receiving the message is the primary syste. operator,
tbe alarm bell at the central computer console rings.
If you are using a 3270, the message puts the screen in a HOLD status
and rings the Audible Alarm, if present. .Press the cancel key to return
to the RONNING status.
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