PROFS: How to Configure Free/Busy Exchange on VMHOST (118458)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Mail Gateway to IBM PROFS and OfficeVision 3.4
This article was previously published under Q118458

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."
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:10/2/2003
Keywords:KB118458
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