RE: HELP!! DLYJOB command

[Bob Clarke 3rd x4502 <clarke@xxxxxxxx>]

Tom Huntington wrote:

> Do you have any other scheduled events that send break messages like a
> sndbrkmsg?  In the past this has caused our utility not to work, because 

> someone had a job scheduled in Robot to send a break message 1 hour
> before going into a restricted state.

> My experience is that the resume time works just great.  We use it in
> several of our products at various times.   My idea on the time range is 

> simply to prevent a catastrophe from occurring outside of the desired
> time range.

Gee ... now that you mention it ... yes, there is a scheduled job at 10:00pm 
that sends a message via sndbrkmsg to all workstations advising them that 
batch production is about to begin and to log off.  I hadn't thought about 
that before.  Could this be the culprit?  Though it does beg the question .. 
'why didn't the operators see or tell me about the message?', but that's 
between me and them I guess (unless the console does not receive break 
messages?).  I hadn't really understood until now that sndbrkmsg messages 
are not held up by the chgmsgq *hold option.  I'm not really up on that 
stuff.  I'll plan on testing the delay both with and without a sndbrkmsg 
message thrown in.  Of course you can all see the next question coming, 
can't you ....

If this is in fact the cause of all my woes, is there a way to keep sending 
that message out to all users without interfering with this delayed backup 
job?

Thanks kindly!

Regards,

Bob Clarke
   
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