SNABUSY

Description

Specifies whether or not an application is able to accept a 'busy' indication from IBM Session Manager.

This common session parameter is applicable to these control statements: SYSTEM (see SYSTEM statement), PROFILE (see PROFILE statement), USER (see USER statement), TERMINAL (see TERMINAL statement), and APPL (see APPL statement).

Format

SNABUSY [Yes|No|ON|OFF]

Default: SNABUSY No

Usage

This parameter is useful for non-visible SNA sessions which issue unsolicited writes. When SNABUSY=Yes, IBM Session Manager indicates to the application that it is busy, and the application then ceases to send output until the application screen is next displayed.

For applications which are unable to accept the busy indication, SNABUSY=No (the default) should be specified. In this instance the WORKQUE parameter may be used to store a number of the output screens.

When output screens are suppressed using SNABUSY, the status variable shows s_aa as set to -Q- and s_a to 70 on the Menu screen. Normally, s_aa would be set to ***, and s_a to 80.

Note: The SNABUSY parameter is not applicable to SHARESESS YES users.

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