Using Robot/ALERT Programs to Page in Restricted State
Robot/ALERT R05M36 provides two programs, RBA018 and RBA670, to help you automate System i processing and paging in restricted state. This Help/FACTS describes these programs and provides a code sample.
Disclaimer: This Help/FACTS is intended for programmers or others with extensive programming knowledge. The generic code sample on the following page is for illustration only and is not guaranteed to work in any specific programming environment.
Program Descriptions
This topic describes the purpose and contents of these two programs.
RBA018
You use the RBA018 program to determine whether a System i server is in restricted state. This program has one parameter, p1RSUChk, described below:
| Name | Size | Type | Possible Values |
| p1RSUChk | 1 | char | 0 = not in restricted state; 1 = in restricted state |
RBA670
You use the RBA670 program to monitor for messages and to page during restricted state. This program is an API that sends a page while the system is in restricted state. It has one parameter, p1Input, described below:
| Name | Size | Type | Possible Values |
| p1Input | 1000 | char | See the p1Input structure description below |
Parameter p1Input Structure Description
| Size | Start Position | End Position | Description |
| 2 | 1 | 2 | The data structure version (always use ‘01’) |
| 172 | 3 | 174 | Pager message text |
| 100 | 175 | 274 | An array of ten, 10-character pager names |
| 726 | 275 | 1000 | Blanks (reserved for future use) |
Sample Program
The following is a generic code sample using these two programs—RBA018 and RBA670.
