AS/400 HELP                       

                                       "NOTE" 

 

NOTE ;    Send a break message to one or more users.  The message will appear on every screen  the user is signed on.  NOTE  picks up users entered in the system directory.        

NOTE was written RPGIV ILE,  developed at V4r5 and  saved at V3r7.  A CISC (V3r2) version is also available.

 

 

 

PC INSTRUCTIONS:

Download "NOTE” to your PC.

Go to a DOS session and enter the following;

FTP SYSTEM                                        (system = your AS/400’s name or IP address)

Enter a valid user id and password

CD QGPL

LCD C:\DIRECTORY (directory= the directory on your pc where you downloaded “note.savf”

QUOTE    SITE     NAMEFMT   1

BIN

PUT       NOTE.SAVF

QUOTE   RCMD   RSTLIB   SAVLIB(NOTE)   DEV(*SAVF)   SAVF(QGPL/NOTE)

 Note:  If there is a security problem restoring all objects with the command above,  sign on to your as/400 as Qsecofr and run RSTLIB  from the command line.

   DOWNLOAD note.savf                               

 

 

AS/400 INSTRUCTIONS:

 

To add users to the System Directory use the command   WRKDIRE

NOTE  uses the first 40 bytes of the DESCRIPTION field and the first 12 bytes of  the first TELEPHONE NUMBERS  field.

NOTE will pick up all users in the directory including system supplied profiles (QSECOFR etc).  To bypass a profile,  enter an  ‘*’  in the last byte (50) of the DESCRIPTION field.

To run NOTE from the command line…

Enter       ADDLIBLE NOTE

Enter       NOTE