>> Did you allow them to stack up on the console? or did you K E,? them? and if >> so how did you keep track of which reply numbers were >>outstanding hidden >> off the console? > >The op k e,1’d them. They did a d r,l to get the message number. I wasn’t >watching the console that closely but the only time a op had to reply >to the >message was to bring down the job for a planned IPL. >Sometimes (if the system stayed up for that long) the jobs would run for 2-3 >weeks and we had multiple jobs running concurrently and there >would be 4 or >more wtor’s outstanding. Since the jobs were submitted by production control >they did most of the care and feeding. BTW these >were really multitasking >jobs I looked at a dump for one of the bugs and found 31 tcb’s. I was >flabbergasted that they did so many attach’s. > >Ed
No one really sits and watches the console quite so closely anymore anyway. I sometimes have to watch events and I like to color code messages so that I can get quick visual, so when there are too many outstanding messages on the screen the messages whizz by too fast, so I want to make sure nothing gets too sticky, or that I have an easy way to clean messages off when I need to. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
