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.

  1. Type DIR at the COMMAND prompt at the bottom of the screen to display the directory of the module messages.
  2. 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
  3. Type 1 on the command line and press Enter.
    The Message Display Screen appears.
  4. 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