Developing Messages for Your Automation Procedures

Depending on the scope of additional programming, creating new automation procedures may also require developing additional messages.

Some SA z/OS facilities and commands you can use to develop messages include:

• The AOCMSG automation routine.
• The AOCUPDT automation routine.

The following steps summarize the message development process.

1. Choose a message ID. Make sure it is unique.
2. Use NetView message services to define the message to NetView.

   Put an entry for the message in a DSIMSG data set. This data set must be identified in a DSIMSG data definition (DD) name.

3. Use the AOCMSG automation routine to issue the message.
4. Add an entry for the message to your production copy of the NetView DSIMSG data set.