Viewing and Printing Messages Using Different Criteria
You can use the Message Maintenance screen to view or print IBM® Connect:Direct® Message Text. You can display messages by message ID if you need to look up an error message in your Process statistics, or if you have a batch job that failed.
- Type DIR at the COMMAND prompt at the bottom of the screen to display the directory of the module messages.
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From the Primary Options
Menu, select option MSG.
The MSG command is available only through the IUI. The following sample screen is a combination of two panels to show the prefixes used in IBM Connect:Direct messages:
Connect:Direct MESSAGE LOOKUP 2 Members processed DATE => yyyy/mm/mm ENTER OPTION ==> _ TIME => hh:mm ============================================================================== OPTIONS =========== 1 = DISPLAY MESSAGE TEXT BY MESSAGE ID 2 = DISPLAY LIST OF ENTRIES (OPTIONALLY BY MODULE) MODULE==> ________________________________________________________________ 3 = PRINT SUMMARY REPORT 4 = PRINT FULL REPORT The following is the general basis for C:D messages: MAINFRAME: z/OS, VM, VSE, Security (ACF2, RACF, TSS), etc. MESSAGE MESSAGE PREFIX Applies to: PREFIX Applies to: N xxx CICS API failures Q xxx CICS API failures RACF xxxx Security system MSGs S xxxxxxx C:D Mainframe msgs SENS nnnn NETMAP sense code U nnnn z/OS User ABEND code CSPx xxxx Secure Plus MBCS xxxx Multi-Byte Character Set NON-Mainframe MESSAGE MESSAGE PREFIX Applies to: PREFIX Applies to: A xxxxxxx i5/OS or OS/400 CCUP xxxx Control Center EMSL xxxx HP NonStop or Tandem FSLD xxxx HP NonStop or Tandem IOXT xxxx HP NonStop or Tandem J xxxxxxx C:D for the Web L xxxxxxx Windows, SI, or Select V xxxxxxx OpenVMS X xxxxxxx Linux, UNIX, or Stratus
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Type 1 on the command line and press
Enter.
The Message Display Screen appears.
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Type the message ID and press Enter. (To check a sense code, type
SENSnnnn where nnnn is the four-digit number representing the sense code and press Enter.) The full
text of the message (or sense code) is displayed. In the following example, the information
associated with Message SCBI190I is shown.
Connect:Direct MESSAGE DISPLAY DATE => yyyy.mm.dd TIME => hh:mm MESSAGE ID==> SCBI190I MODULE ==> DMCBSUBM ============================================================================== SHORT TEXT==> Process specified not in process library. LONG TEXT: LINE 1 ==> This message may be generated for the following reasons: LINE 2 ==> LINE 3 ==> 1) The member specified is not in the public process library LINE 4 ==> or in the PDS specified in the 'DSN=' keyword. LINE 5 ==> 2) The process library has not been properly concatenated. LINE 6 ==> LINE 7 ==> LINE 8 ==> LINE 9 ==> LINE 10==> SYSTEM ACTION: Return to invoker with RC=8. LINE 11==> LINE 12==> RESPONSE: Verify the above is correct and resubmit process. COMMAND ===> ________ ENTER 'DIR' TO DISPLAY THE DIRECTORY