Enables you to selectively screen out various kinds of messages from being broadcast to your terminal. Format SET BROADCAST=(class-name[,...])
1 – Parameter
class-name[,...] Specifies the class of message that you want to enable or disable for broadcast to your terminal. If you specify only one class, you can omit the parentheses. The class names are as follows: ALL Enables all message classes. [NO]DCL Specifies Ctrl/T and SPAWN/NOTIFY messages. [NO]GENERAL Specifies all normal REPLY messages or messages from $BRDCST. [NO]MAIL Specifies notification of mail. NONE Disables all message classes. [NO]OPCOM Specifies messages issued by the operator communication process (OPCOM). [NO]PHONE Specifies messages from the Phone utility. [NO]QUEUE Specifies messages referring to print or batch jobs issued by the queue manager. [NO]SHUTDOWN Specifies messages issued from the REPLY/SHUTDOWN command. [NO]URGENT Specifies messages issued from the REPLY/URGENT command. [NO]USER1 to Specifies messages from specific user [NO]USER16 groups. (For information on setting up user-written broadcast messages, see the description of the $BRKTHRU system service in the HP OpenVMS System Services Reference Manual.)
2 – Examples
1.$ SET BROADCAST=(NOMAIL, NOPHONE) . . . $ SET BROADCAST=MAIL In this example, the first SET BROADCAST command screens out all mail and phone messages. Later the second SET BROADCAST command restores mail messages. Phone messages are still screened. 2.$ SET BROADCAST=NONE . . . $ SET BROADCAST=(SHUTDOWN, URGENT, DCL, OPCOM) In this example, the first SET BROADCAST command screens out all messages. Later the second SET BROADCAST command restores shutdown, urgent, DCL, and OPCOM messages. General, phone, mail, queue, and user messages are still screened.