Developing the message keyword

This topic explains how to develop the message keyword in your keyword string. A message can indicate these types of failures:

You can add the message number and associated return and reason codes to your keyword string as follows:

To develop the message keyword for your keyword string, follow these steps:

Use MSG as your type-of-failure keyword, followed by the message identifier. For example, if the message identifier is EDG6646I, your keyword string would look like this:
Keyword string so far: 5650DF186 R210 MSGEDG6646I
If the message has a return code and reason code associated with it, append the return code to the keyword prefix RC and the reason code to the prefix RC. For example, if the return code is 12 and the reason code is 183, your keyword string would look like this:
Completed keyword string: 5650DF186 R210 MSGEDG6646I RC12 RC183
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