The REMOTESPO (Activate REMOTESPO) command controls the authorization and activation of a data comm station as a remote ODT station. When the command activates or deactivates a remote ODT, no response is displayed.

A maximum of 15 ODT and REMOTESPO STATIONS can run simultaneously. REMOTESPO STATIONS are statically assigned to SCs that are ACQUIRED in the MCP Environment. Once a REMOTESPO STATION has been assigned in this manner, it can not be reassigned until the next halt/load.

If security administrator status is authorized for the system or the LIMITREMOTESPO security option is set, an appropriately privileged user must authorize a station before it can be activated as a remote ODT.

Syntax

Explanation

REMOTESPO

Displays a list of active REMOTESPO stations. The system marks a REMOTESPO station as active when it receives a message from that station. Merely designating a station as a REMOTESPO station does not activate it until that station confirms that it is active.

When the maximum number of REMOTESPO stations permitted are active, the display header contains the phrase AT LIMIT.

REMOTESPO <station name>

Makes the designated data comm station an ODT station and gives it system supervisory control. You can then enter all nonprimitive system commands from that station except LABEL (Label ODT) and TERM DCSTATION. The CQ (Clear Queue) command is not effective on remote ODTs; use the CANDE command ?BRK instead.

If security administrator status is authorized on the system or if the LIMITREMOTESPO security option is set, the station name must have been previously authorized. Otherwise, the following error message appears:

  STATION <station name> WAS NOT FOUND IN THE LIST OF AUTHORIZED
  REMOTESPO STATIONS

To authorize the station, use the REMOTESPO  :OK form of the command.

REMOTESPO − <station name>

Removes system supervisory control from the station. To return control of the terminal to an MCS, enter BYE, END or ?END at that terminal.

REMOTESPO −

Removes supervisory control from all active stations and terminates the REMOTESPO independent runner.

REMOTESPO :OK <station name>

Authorizes the designated data comm station as a remote ODT station but does not activate it. The authorization is preserved across halt/loads.

If security administrator status is authorized on the system, only the security administrator usercode can issue this command. If security administrator status is not authorized but the security option LIMITREMOTESPO is set, any operator, SYSTEMUSER, or privileged user can issue this command. If the system is not running in either of these two security modes, the REMOTESPO  :OK command is invalid.

A maximum of 255 station names can be concurrently authorized as remote ODT stations.

REMOTESPO :OK − <station name>

Removes the authorization for the data comm station to be a remote ODT but does not deactivate any current use of it as a remote ODT.

REMOTESPO :OK

Displays a list of the stations authorized to become remote ODTs.

Examples

Example 1

In this example, the REMOTESPO command is used first to designate data comm station M333 as an ODT station, and then used alone to confirm that the station has been designated as an ODT station and has become active.

REMOTESPO M333

REMOTESPO

  --------------- 1 ACTIVE REMOTESPO STATION -------
  M333

Example 2

In this example, the AT LIMIT phrase indicates that the maximum number of REMOTESPO stations are active.

REMOTESPO

  ------9 ACTIVE REMOTESPO STATIONS (AT LIMIT)------
  M333
  CCFPIPE22/CANDE/1
  CCFPIPE22/CANDE/2
  CCFPIPE22/CANDE/34
  CCFPIPE11/CANDE/1
  CCFPIPE11/CANDE/2
  CCFPIPE11/CANDE/3
  CCFPIPE11/CANDE/4