MSG

Authorization

C, G, R, S, U

Links

A, N, PR (except LPR), W

Purpose

The MSG command causes a line of text to be sent to the specified node and presented to a user or operator as a message.

Operands

nodeid

is the name of the node (location) to receive the specified text line. If the message is for a local z/VM user, this operand is specified as the local RSCS location ID.

SYSTEM

specifies the remote RSCS operator's console.

userid

is the ID of a user at the specified location. If the message is to be sent to a remote batch terminal, the userid field is ignored, but a dummy entry must be included to avoid deletion of the first word of the message text.

msgtext

is a string of 1 - 132 alphanumeric characters composing the message to be sent. For information about message truncation, see z/VM: RSCS Networking Messages and Codes.