Does anyone have experience directing input to GlanceXL from a
MSG file?  I want to use STARTSESS from a scheduled JOB to start
a GlanceXL session on a terminal device.  I want it to
automatically start with:  a refresh time of 5 minutes; PRINT
Enabled; the Xpert Over View screen displayed; and OUTPUT
(GLANCELP) redirected to an ASCII flat file.

The following command file accomplishes all of this with a couple
of irritating quirks:

    today ,t
    setvar file_nam "gl"+"!tdate5"
    if finfo('!file_nam',0) = FALSE
         build !file_nam;dev=disc;disc=5000;rec=-80,,f,ascii
    endif
    file glancelp=!file_nam,old;dev=disc;acc=append;ear
    if finfo('in2',0) = TRUE
         purge in2
    endif
    build in2;dev=disc;rec=1,,v,ascii;msg
    file in2,old;msg
    echo +>*in2
    echo O>>*in2
    reset in2
    run glancexl.pub.sys;info="print";parm=300 <in2


1.  After the 2 commands are read from the MSG file, the keyboard
    is locked.  The BREAK key or ABORTJOB must be used to
    terminate the session.  This isn't necessarially a bad thing
    in that it prevents anyone from accidentally changing
    parameters or interupting the process.

2.  The Over View screen is displayed twice after each 300 second
    time interval.  I would like to find a way to fix this - it
    uses twice the disc space.

The purpose of this is to collect some simple resource demand
statistics during a specific time period each day (i.e., our
library public service hours).

Thanks in advance for any help in resolving this.

Steve Barrett


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