DSXchange

Hello Forum,

In our environment, we sometimes require rebooting the server. Currently we inform users via email in advance. However, we would prefer to send something more noticeable alert to anybody who has a DS Client open to save/close/export etc. We feel this would be little more efficient than email.

Is there a way to broadcast a popup message to any DS client connected to the server? Something similar to unix broadcast?


Greg

Nope.

Yes, but it's not DataStage functionality.

Probably the easiest way is to create a small message box app that you can run on other computers via the AT command.

You can determine which clients are connected by capturing the output of LIST.READU or SELECT * FROM DS_LICENSE; on the server machine.