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 the short 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:

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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
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