Defining MRT Conditions and Overrides

The MRT enables user-defined modification of attributes such as color, route code, descriptor code, display and syslog settings, and text of original z/OS messages.

You can make decisions about the message based on its message ID, job name, and many other properties. You can have only one MRT active per system.

Any MRT specification that you make are independent of any AT entry data for the message. Thus, if you make a definition for the MRT, the existing AT data remains unchanged.

The MS option on the Message Automation Overview panel allows you to define conditions and attributes that are used to generate MRT entries for a message ID. Use the fields on the offered Message Revision Table Conditions panel to specify the following conditions:

• Ignore the message for the generated MRT.
• Delete the message completely (if you select this condition, no other selection is valid).
• Automate the message.
• Suppress the message from the console or system log.
• Translate the message text to uppercase or append further text to it.
• Change the color, highlighting, and intensity (if your terminal supports high intensity) attributes of the message. Only one selection for each of these attributes is allowed.

   COMMANDS  HELP                                                               
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 AOFGMRT1                Message Revision Table Conditions                      
 Command ===>                                                                   
                                                                                
 View or change specifications for message: IKT007I                          
                                                                                
 Ignore for MRT . . . . . .              (YES NO)                               
 Delete completely  . . . .              (YES NO)                               
                                                                                
 Automate . . . . . . . . .              (YES NO)                               
 Suppress from console  . .              (YES NO)                               
 Suppress from system log .              (YES NO)                               
 Translate to upper case  .              (YES NO)                               
 Append text  . . . . . .                                                                                                                    
                                                                                
 Color  . . . . . . . . . .              (BLUE RED PINK YELLOW GREEN WHITE TURQ)
 Highlighting . . . . . . .              (UNDERLINED BLINKING REVERSEVIDEO)     
 Intensity  . . . . . . . .              (YES NO)                               
                                                                                

You can include system automation symbols (AOCCLONE variables) and system symbols in an MRT override definition. They are resolved at MRT load time.

A syntax check is not made of the MRT entry because any system-specific definitions (for example, symbols) can be verified only on the system where the MRT is to run.

You should check that the routines triggered by the AT entry for the message ID are compatible with any changes you made to the original message text.

You can also use the MO option on the Message Automation Overview panel to define the MRT entry directly using a full-screen editor. A syntax check is not performed on this panel. Ensure that your specifications follow NetView message revision table syntax rules.

For more information, see The Message Revision Table in IBM Z® NetView Automation Guide.