I'm not familiar with these custom messages, but have you tried a trailing
"." i.e. ":newline."? Only a hunch, mind you...

Rexx

On Mon, 10 Apr 2023, 17:46 Frank Swarbrick, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> At
> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=cm-creating-message-source-file
> is documented creating of a "message source file" for custom LE messages.
> Is anyone besides me using this?  I am having an issue with the ":newline"
> not seeming to do anything at all, and definitely not what it appears to be
> documented as doing.  Specifically "The :newline. tag creates a new message
> line that can be used for multiline messages." My observation is that it
> neither creates a new message line nor does it insert any control
> characters that would represent the beginning of a new line.
>
> Here's an example message configuration:
>
> :msgno.1010
> :msgsubid.1
> :msgname.AIB-Results
> :msgclass.I
> :msg.DL/I AIB call, unexpected rtn/rsn
> :tab.+1
> :ins 1.
> :msg./
> :ins 2.
> :msg. (
> :ins 3.
> :msg./
> :ins 4.
> :msg.) for args:
> :newline
> :ins 5.
> :tab.+1
> :ins 6.
> :tab.+1
> :ins 7.
> :msg..
>
> This should (to my understanding!) start insert 5 on a new line, but it is
> not doing so.  No space, no control character, no nothing between the colon
> in "args:" and the value of insert #5.
>
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