PROFS: How to Configure Free/Busy Exchange on VMHOST

Last reviewed: October 20, 1997
Article ID: Q118458

3.40 MS-DOS kb3rdparty

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Mail Gateway to IBM PROFS and OfficeVision, version 3.4

SUMMARY

Version 3.4 of the PROFS gateway can exchange Free/Busy scheduling information with Schedule+. The host component is the Calendar Service Machine (MS-CSM); this accesses the calendars of the host PROFS users for complete Free/Busy times distribution (all users' times), as well as incremental Free/Busy time distributions (only calendars that have changed over the interval period). To know when to process incremental Free/Busy times distributions, the MS-CSM machine looks at the time settings in the WAKEUP DATA A file.

MORE INFORMATION

Here is an example of the WAKEUP DATA A file:

************************************************************************

* WAKEUP DATA   VERSION 1.00
*

* The format of this file is: * * DayOfWeek hh:mm:ss TimeStamp Function * * DayOfWeek - the day or days the function is to be executed.

*             Valid values: ALL, M-F, S-S, MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI,
*                           SAT, SUN

* hh:mm:ss - the time the function is to be executed (24hr clock) * TimeStamp - used internally.

*             Enter 'NEW' for new tasks.

* Function - PWABFDN to download PROFS/OV scheduling information.

*             PWAMRCHK to check if Schedule+ meeting requests were
*             added.
*

* For example: *

* ALL   13:00:00   NEW  PWABFDN
*

* Will download scheduling information, everyday at 1:00pm ************************************************************************

* Download PROFS/OV Free/Busy information to Schedule+

ALL 00:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 01:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 02:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 03:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 04:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 05:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 06:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 07:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 08:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 09:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 10:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 11:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 12:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 13:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 14:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 15:00:00 1993/06/30 PWABFDN ALL 16:00:00 PENDING-WED PWABFDN ALL 17:00:00 PENDING-WED PWABFDN ALL 18:00:00 PENDING-WED PWABFDN ALL 19:00:00 PENDING-WED PWABFDN ALL 20:00:00 PENDING-WED PWABFDN ALL 21:00:00 PENDING-WED PWABFDN ALL 22:00:00 PENDING-WED PWABFDN ALL 23:00:00 PENDING-WED PWABFDN

* Check PROFS/OV calendars to see if Schedule+ meeting requests were added.

ALL 00:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 01:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 02:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 03:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 04:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 05:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 06:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 07:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 08:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 09:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 10:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 11:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 12:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 13:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 14:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 15:00:00 1993/06/30 PWAMRCHK ALL 16:00:00 PENDING-WED PWAMRCHK ALL 17:00:00 PENDING-WED PWAMRCHK ALL 18:00:00 PENDING-WED PWAMRCHK ALL 19:00:00 PENDING-WED PWAMRCHK ALL 20:00:00 PENDING-WED PWAMRCHK ALL 21:00:00 PENDING-WED PWAMRCHK ALL 22:00:00 PENDING-WED PWAMRCHK ALL 23:00:00 PENDING-WED PWAMRCHK

As the times are executed, the "pending" messages in column three are overwritten with the current date, and the MS-CSM machine ignores this time when next it views the file.

REFERENCES

"Microsoft Mail to PROFS and Office Vision, VM Administrator's Guide."

Additional reference words: mscsm schedplus
KBCategory: kb3rdparty
KBSubcategory: MailGWPROFS

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Last reviewed: October 20, 1997
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