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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Core OS
Created by Guest
Created on May 26, 2020

improve STRCPYSCN and ENDCPYSCN

We would like to request the following:

a) Eliminate the message following the STRCPYSCN that breaks to the customer a second after he got a break message to confirm the copy.

b) Eliminate the 2 messages that appear following ENDCPYSCN on the user screen. This is the only command which:
Sends 2 end messages
Sends it to the affected screen instead of a completion message in the job that requested the ENDCPYSCN.

c) Provide meaningful data instead of a constant data: Each copied screen is preceded by a record with SIROW = ‘ ‘, and SIDATA field with = ‘....+....1....+....2....+....3.. . . .'
We would like to see in the SIDATA real information such as Current user, Timestamp (with milliseconds), IP, PROGRAM & LIBRARY, Screen size (80/132)

d) Add a Retrieve Copy Screen (RTVCPYSCN) Command, to enable knowing if the command is already running and its attributes.

DETAILS ON MESSAGES
===================
a)
On STRCPYSCN after the customer confirms his acceptance for being copied, he gets as a BREAK MESSAGE:
Queue . . . . . : QPADEV0009 Program . . . . : *DSPMSG
Library . . . : QSYS Library . . . :
Severity . . . : 00 Delivery . . . : *NOTIFY

Type reply (if required), press Enter.
From . . . : AU 30/12/19 11:30:30
Copy Screen Image from QPADEV0009 to *NONE has started.

b)
After ending he gets as a BREAK MESSAGE:

Queue . . . . . : QPADEV0009 Program . . . . : *DSPMSG
Library . . . : QSYS Library . . . :
Severity . . . : 00 Delivery . . . : *NOTIFY

Type reply (if required), press Enter.
From . . . : AU 30/12/19 11:34:42
Copy Screen Image from QPADEV0009 has ended.

And the second message:
Message ID . . . . . . : CPI7AF3 Severity . . . . . . . : 00
Message type . . . . . : Information
Date sent . . . . . . : 30/12/19 Time sent . . . . . . : 11:34:39

Message . . . . : Copy Screen Image from QPADEV0009 has ended.
Cause . . . . . : Either you entered an End Copy Screen (ENDCPYSCN) command
for the specified device or an error was detected which ended the copy
function.
Recovery . . . : If you did not enter the End Copy Screen (ENDCPYSCN)
command, then use the Start Copy Screen (STRCPYSCN) command to start the
copy function again.


Doing DSPMSG
From . . . : AU 30/12/19 11:30:30
Copy Screen Image from QPADEV0009 to *NONE has started.
Copy Screen Image from QPADEV0009 has ended.
From . . . : AU 30/12/19 11:34:42
Copy Screen Image from QPADEV0009 has ended.


Use Case:

The break messages do disturb some customers and sometimes are regarded as error or issue.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Sep 29, 2020

    Thank you for your request. I looked into it further to find out why the second message is sent, and found that it was added when the inquiry message reply exit point was added.

    This is the scenario that it was added for:
    When you copy someone else's screen, they get an impromptu message that says the screen is to be copied, and they can reply G to continue or C to cancel. If the user replies C to cancel, an exit program could then change that reply message from Cancel to Go and then not realize that their screens are now being captured even after they tried to cancel. So the "extra" messages are sent to the user after exit programs are called, so the user realizes that the screen is really being copied. The user cannot stop the copy screen at that point, but they can signoff to end the entire session.

  • Guest
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    Jul 21, 2020

    The CEAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a “nice to have” LOW priority feature.

    Background: The COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CEAC has a crucial role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your RFE.

    To find out how CEAC help to shape the future of IBM i, see CEAC @ ibm.biz/BdYSYj and the article "The Five Hottest IBM i RFEs Of The Quarter" at ibm.biz/BdYSZT

    Therese Eaton – CEAC Program Manager, IBM