> I hope this is not too vague, but is there an established way to send a
> message from Linux S/390 that will show up in an OS/390 LPAR's logs?

The question makes me think of ye olde NJE networking
with its ability to write to a remote console.   Write to logs?
I don't know,  not knowing MVS well enough.   Certainly in the
VM world we were able to write to a file rather than to a terminal.
DEC VMS when NJE attached could too.   And of course there are
true NJE implementations for UNIX.   But!

> was hoping to send a message from linux to the other end of it's CTC
> channel that our ops could see (and react to).

This sounds more like writing to the terminal
than writing to the logs per se.

SMTP has a "SEND" directive.   I have no idea if this is
implemented in the MVS SMTP server.   But there is UFT,  which
also has a "MSG" directive.   Here too,  MVS implementation lacks.
(There is no UFT implementation for MVS that I know of.)

Finally,  there is MSP (Message Send Protocol),  a simple and
mostly clean specification for IP interactive messaging.
Here again,  UNIX and VM have implementations,  but I
do not know about MVS.   Would be easy enough to code-up,
given the simplicity of MSP.   See RFC 1312.

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