How to obtain any held message that requires a response so it can be routed to a display screen?

Products

• FAQS - Automated Systems Operation

Issue/Introduction

The environment has 30 - 40 consoles.  Is there a way to trap messages that require a response and send a message to another console or a VM userid?

 

Environment

Release: 5.1
Component:  FAQS-Automated Systems Operation

Resolution

Use $ACTION.

• $HOLD take action when any held message hits the console.
  
  
• $ACTION take action when a reply is required or + or - between the partition ID and the number

Example

Enter AO from the FAQS console,

 Select 'I' Initialization and Configuration

Select 'M' Message Definitions

Edit the message action file you are using, put an 'A' next to a member

Define the action similar to below.  Action Name can be anything

  Action Name ==> NTFYACTN        _______________________      
  Message   = ==> $ACTION      Special   Scan ( 01 , 01 )      

Put an 'X' in notify and enter the USER ID of the VM user you wish to Notify.

  _ Notify   ( x  ) Type= msg     User= userid     Node=      RSCS= 
PF5=Save    then           
PF3=Return  then
PF6=Load FILE