On 11/25/2010 7:35 AM, McKown, John wrote:
Sorry, I was just curious about whether people thought having a message id on each line of the message would be useful. Who knows, someday I may have such a need and I'd like to have a good idea what would be useful for others. I am not suggesting that IBM or other vendor immediately start recoding their MLWTO messages! But perhaps it should become an "industry recommendation"? I'm on some steriods for a few days, and can't sleep, am "nervous" so I'm just blathering on. Sorry if it's a disruption. My bad.
My guess is that it depends on your background. If you are an application programmer, all you have is a single, multi-line WTO, and repeating the message id is pretty useless. OTOH, if you're writing systems code, and you're using the add one line at a time MLWTO, then specifying the id on each line may make it easier to work with.
Most of the time I use single, non-deletable WTO/WTORs from STCs, with either help information or (short) option lists. It's easier than expecting the operators (an endangered species) to waste time looking things up.
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