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The TELL command enables you to send a message from your job or session
to one or more currently running sessions.
The message appears on the list device of the receiving session, which is
usually a terminal. Syntax | |
TELL {[#]Snnn
[sessionname,]username.acctname
@
@.acctname } [ [;]text]
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Parameters | |
- Snnn
Specifies the session number to receive the message.
- [sessionname,] username. acctname
Specifies the name of the session
or user to receive the message, and the account name to which the
message is directed. This parameter is the same as the session identity
entered with the HELLO command.
- @
Specifies all sessions.
- @.acctname
Specifies all
user names logged on to the account name.
- text
Specifies message text, preceded by a space or
a semicolon (;), that consists of a string
of any ASCII characters. If you do not provide message text,
the system still prints a FROM message on the target terminal as shown:
Operation Notes | |
Usage You can enter this command from a session, a job, a program, or in
break mode.
Quiet mode Users who enter the SETMSG OFF command are in quiet mode and cannot
receive your messages. This also applies to a session running in quiet mode on
the console. If you send a message to a session in quiet mode,
the system blocks the TELL command and displays the following message:
Snnn username.acctname NOT ACCEPTING MESSAGES
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Multiple users If several users are running
under the same session identity, the system sends the message to all of them.
Additional acceptable message media Messages that you send with this
command can include escape and control characters that invoke
bells or inverse video.
Restrictions You cannot send a message to a job or to yourself. If you attempt
to send a message to a job, the following warning appears:
TARGET MUST BE INTERACTIVE, NO MESSAGE SENT.
(CIWARN 1627).
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If you send a message to a terminal
currently interacting with a program, the system queues the message
as high as possible among the current input/output requests, but
does not interrupt any read or write in progress.
Examples | |
To send an instructional message to user FRED, logged on in
account PAYROLL, running a session
named FINANCES, enter:
:TELL FINANCES,FRED.PAYROLL USE FILES FROM YESTERDAY'S BACKUPS
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To send a message asking all users logged on in account PAYROLL to log
off, enter:
:TELL @.PAYROLL PLEASE LOG OFF
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