The CEEBLDTX utility creates several files from the message source file. It creates an assembler source file, which can be assembled into an object ("TEXT") file and link-edited into a module in an MVS™ load library. When the name of the module is placed in a message module table, the Language Environment message services can dynamically access the messages. See Creating a message module table for more information about creating a message module table.
The CEEBLDTX utility optionally creates secondary input files (COPY or INCLUDE), which contain the declarations for the condition tokens associated with each message in the message source file. When a program uses the secondary input file, the condition tokens can then be used to reference the message from the message table. The :msgname. tag indicates the symbolic name of the condition token.
TSO/E:
CEEBLDTX example exmplasm pli(exmplcop)
The in_file is
EXAMPLE, the out_file is EXMPLASM, and the PL/I secondary input file
is EXMPLCOP. z/OS UNIX:
ceebldtx -l PLI -I exmplcop example exmplasm
The in_file is example, the out_file is exmplasm.s, and the PL/I secondary input file is exmplcop.copy.