Maintain Message Action Item - SHP087
The message action item is a subset of message monitor processing. In this section of the system you can select what to do when a message being monitored occurs. You can set the system such that the message is sent to a workstation message queue, or a local profile, or passed to an external program for further processing. In the external program, you may choose to interface with a pager system where the appropriate message can be sent to a selected pager.
Field descriptions
Workstation message queue
Enter the name of a valid workstation message queue where the system will send the message as defined later. The message queue must exist in the system. Enter *NONE if you do not wish to use the workstation message queue. The message sent will be a break message
Profile message queue
Enter a profile message queue if you wish to send the message to a user profile. The user profile message queue must exist in the system. Enter *NONE if you do not wish to use the profile message queue. You can use this profile in addition to the workstation message queue.
Profile remote address
Enter *LOCAL if the profile is on the local machine.
Pass to external program
Self Help can pass the message to an external program for further processing. The external program could be used to send a message to a pager system or it could be used to shut down certain operations. You can use this parameter in addition to the workstation message queue and the profile message queue. The external program must be capable of working in batch mode. Self Help will pass the following parameters to the external program:
- MSGID - 7 characters
- JOB - 10 characters
- USER - 10 characters
- JOB NBR - 6 characters
- DATE - 6 characters (system format)
- TIME - 6 characters
- MSG - 78 characters (message description)
- MSGCTL - 8 characters (*MSG *MSGPLUS or *MSGTEXT)
- ADDMSG - 256 characters (additional messages)
Program library
The program and program library will be checked to make sure that they exist in the system.
Message control
In this parameter, you define the structure of the message that you want to process for the workstation, profile, external program and / or external interface. The valid entries are:
- *MSG - Where the message will be sent as it appears from the system log.
- *MSGPLUS - Where a combination of the message from the message log and the additional messages as defined below will be sent.
- *MSGTEXT - Where the message from the message log is ignored and replaced by the additional messages as defined below.
Additional messages
If you have entered *MSGPLUS or *MSGTEXT in the 'Message control' field, then you are expected to enter some text in this field. This field must be blank if you have defined *MSG in the 'Message control' field.