Thanks all. I was using the wrong book. (I was using MVS Planning:
Operations)
Tony Thigpen
John McKown wrote on 01/03/2018 09:39 AM:
On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 8:28 AM, Tony Thigpen <[email protected]> wrote:
I know this seems a simple question, but I can't seem to find an answer in
the doc.
When utilizing the MPFLST00 member, what is the maximum length for the
message id? And, what characters can it contain?
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ieae200/conparm.htm
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Statements/parameters for MPFLSTxx
msgidIdentifies a message or group of messages to be processed. The
msgid consists
of:
- A complete message identifier of one to ten characters. This is known
as a *specific* message identifier.
- A message prefix, which is a portion of the message identifier,
followed by an asterisk(*). This is known as a *generic* message
identifier.
- A single quotation mark (') is *not* a valid character in a message
identifier.
A message identifier begins with the first non-blank character of the
message text and continues until the next blank
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I have some application programs that put out messages where the first
word on the console can be 12 to 16 characters long.
Use the allowed maximum of 10 characters, but make the last of those be an
asterisk. This makes the msgid be a "generic" which will match _all_ msgids
which match the leading characters. You must then have the code which runs
when the match occur compare the actual, entire, msgid.
I also have a case where the (so called) message id from the application
program contains what might be considered non-normal characters (+-$%$) and
in some cases, even a space in the middle.
A space unconditionally terminates the msgid. So something like "ABB CDDF"
has a msgid of "ABB".
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Tony Thigpen
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