Triggered by the discussion about randomly disappearing IGD101I message, I did some RTFM and some testing to find out how to write a message only to JESYSMSG. I got contradicting information instead of an answer. So here it goes...
It was may understanding from my experience that allocation messages, be it the SMS ones IDG10xI, or the non-SMS IEFxxxx ones, are only ever written to JESYSMSG. Only for STC running under MSTR (and in BPXAS?) will the messages be prefixed with IEF196I and written to syslog/operlog. I knew there is the "WTP" service which is actually a WTO with route code 11, only. It is described as to be writing the message to the *JESYSMSG* data set. However from experience, and I verified today, a WTO with route code 11 writes the message to JESYSMSG *and* to the JESMSGLG data set. The doc is not complete here, it seems. So, while I thought the IDG10xI messages are written as WTO ROUTCDE=11, I now doubt, since they are not seen anywhere else than JESYSMSG (exception see IEF196I above). But, the MVS messages manual documents for all of the IGD10xI messages: Route Code 2, Descriptor Code 4. Route code 2 is for the consoles (and the syslog/operlog). Again, the doc seems to be incomplete and possibly in error, because the IGD10xI messages are not seen in syslog/operlog and not on consoles. Contradiction #1. Next surprise: By chance, I saw a few IGD103I and IGD104I messages in operlog, *not* prefixed by IEF196I! How comes?? I was looking at the STC that was the source of the WTO. To my astonishment, I found not only in the JESYSMGS but also in the JESMSGLG of the STC. So far, I had only seen IDG103I and IGD104 in the same places and format as the IDG101I. A WTO seen in all of those three places would have routing codes 11 plus (at least) one of the "console" routing codes. Again the MVS msg manuals say route code 2, only. Contradiction #2. Anyone to shed some light on this? Questions to answer: a) How does one write a message to JESYSMSG *only". b) What determines whether IDG10xI messages are written to JESYSMSG only, or to JESYSMSG, JESMSGLG *and* operlog? c) Are the IGD10xI messages really WTOs with route code 2 and descriptor code 4, only? -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
