Thank you. Yes I do not have any options for rewriting the application itself. If grew out of old methods of displaying a message, having it looked up, then a response given by the operator. I cannot touch the underlying application, but I have to make it work in context of a fully automated stand alone and virtually unmanned system. I have seen the technique of leaving a WTOR open on the console before. I believe some subsystems do it. In this particular program there are complexities my example does not show. Text that is used as a security lookup is extracted, and other events are looked for to determine if, when and what type of response is to be given. I do not like leaving WTORs open because some one could potentially come and respond to it through the console, perhaps cancelling a critical process. In fact for some I have had to set carts to ensure that only the programmed response is the one accepted. Leaving the WTOR open leads to an increase of programmed complexity.
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