Where messages are presented
The messages described in this book can be presented in two ways:
- In the
long message
area on an Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) panel. This message is displayed if you enter HELP after a message is issued in theshort message
area on the panel. The ISPF long message area is normally the third line on the ISPF panel. All HCL Workload Automation for Z dialog messages that are presented in this area have mixed-case text. - As one or more records in the HCL Workload Automation for Z message-log
data set. The message log is defined by the EQQMLOG DD statement.
The message log is used by the HCL Workload Automation for Z started
task and by HCL Workload Automation for Z's
own batch jobs. Any message in the message log can also be displayed
as a write-to-operator message.
The format of a HCL Workload Automation for Z message printed in the message log data set is:
mm/dd HH.MM.SS msgnum TEXT
where:
- mm/dd
- Is the current date, given as a 2-digit month number and a 2-digit day-of-month number. For example, 02/03 means February 3.
- HH.MM.SS
- Is the current time-of-day:
- HH
- Is the hour, starting from midnight, in the range 00-23.
- MM
- Is the minute of the current hour, in the range 00-59.
- SS
- Is the second of the current minute, in the range 00-59.
- msgnum
- Is the message number in the format described in Message format.
- TEXT
- Is the message text.
An example of messages in the HCL Workload Automation for Z message log follows:
⋮ 02/21 16.31.11 EQQZ005I HCL Workload Automation for Z SUBTASK EVENT WRITER IS BEING STARTED 02/21 16.31.13 EQQZ005I HCL Workload Automation for Z SUBTASK VTAM I/O TASK IS BEING STARTED 02/21 16.31.14 EQQZ005I HCL Workload Automation for Z SUBTASK JOB SUBMIT TASK IS BEING STARTED 02/21 16.31.16 EQQZ005I HCL Workload Automation for Z SUBTASK DATA ROUTER TASK IS BEING STARTED 02/21 16.31.17 EQQZ013I NOW PROCESSING PARAMETER LIBRARY MEMBER EWOPTS 02/21 16.31.19 EQQZ015I INIT STATEMENT: EWTROPTS HOLDJOB(NO) 02/21 16.31.26 EQQZ015I INIT STATEMENT: STEPEVENTS(ALL) 02/21 16.31.28 EQQZ015I INIT STATEMENT: RETCODE(LAST) 02/21 16.31.29 EQQZ015I INIT STATEMENT: EWSEQNO(1) 02/21 16.31.30 EQQZ016I RETURN CODE FOR THIS STATEMENT IS: 0000 02/21 16.31.31 EQQZ014I MAXIMUM RETURN CODE FOR PARAMETER MEMBER EWOPTS IS: 000 02/21 16.31.32 EQQV001I NCF APPLICATION STARTED 02/21 16.31.33 EQQF001I DATA ROUTER TASK INITIALIZATION IS COMPLETE ⋮