Hi
We currently have Websphere5.0.2  and http 5.3 running in an z/OS 1.4 lpar.
What we would to know is how does one send a broadcast message to all users,
notifying them that the system will be shut down in say 10 minutes?
regards
Ahmed Rahim

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Through a web interface?  You don't. HTTP is client driven. What you CAN
do is use a global (application scope) object to hold that state
information then check its condition during each response.

Ahmed Rahim wrote:
> Hi
> We currently have Websphere5.0.2  and http 5.3 running in an z/OS 1.4 lpar
.
> What we would to know is how does one send a broadcast message to all user
s,
> notifying them that the system will be shut down in say 10 minutes?
> regards
> Ahmed Rahim
>
>

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As Ray indicates, web interface are by nature a "pull" technology. To push
information to a client, you have to implement a feature in the client that
regularly checks if the server pushes.

For example, every time (or so) a user makes an interaction, you check the
application context for a notification message. Or you could add a hidden
autorefresh frame to do it.

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