Building a keyword string

This section describes a systematic way of selecting keywords to describe a failure in IBM® MQ for z/OS®. Keywords are predefined words or abbreviations that identify aspects of a program failure.

To determine which IBM MQ for z/OS keywords to use and the procedures for selecting them, see the flowchart in Figure 1.

To begin selecting your keywords:
  1. Follow the procedures in The component-identifier keyword and The release-level keyword. Do this for all failures.
  2. Follow one of the type-of-failure keyword procedures.
  3. Identify the area of the failure using CSECT and modifier keywords when appropriate. The procedures in this section refer you to these steps as needed.
  4. Follow Searching the IBM database for similar problems, and solutions to learn how to search the database with your set of keywords. Do this for all failures.
Figure 1. High-level flowchart of various sets of keywords
Use the following topics to build a keyword string for searching the IBM database for problems: