Set General Broadcasts

A general broadcast allows you to notify potential users of the system about critical events. For example, the impending unavailability of a major application such as production CICS or IMS subsystems.

A general broadcast can be up to four lines, and can be sent to all EASINET terminals or all system services terminals, including EASINET terminals. The lines of broadcast appear at the bottom of the terminal display and are available across system restarts.

When you send a general broadcast, the NCL variables &BROLINE1 to 4 are updated. Any panel containing these variables displays the text you have entered the next time a user accesses those panels.

To set a general broadcast

Enter /BCAST at the prompt.
The Broadcast Services : Primary Menu appears.
Enter G at the prompt on the Broadcast Services : Primary Menu.
The Broadcast Services : Edit Broadcast Text panel appears.

On entry to this panel, the lines in the editor display the text from the last general broadcast that was issued. Details of the user who issued the last broadcast are also displayed.
Enter the text that you want to send as a general broadcast in the text lines provided and press F3 (File).
The broadcast is saved.

Note: This procedure sets the broadcast so that it can be displayed and saves the broadcast in the system services VFS file so it is available across system restarts.