I posted this to the VM discussion list earlier today.
Years ago, I was forced (more or less) to use 'XMITMSG' on CMS, but then I came to really love it. To my astonishment, z/OS doesn't have a similar facility. (Especially shocking since z/OS is pretty disciplined about standardized message headers.) The standardized message numbers are a win for diagnosing many foreign-to-users situations. They tie right in with published doco. Niiiice.
There's nothing like CMS APPLMSG and XMITMSG in Linux land.There is some internationalization, but it seems very after-the-fact. Or maybe it's just the "what I learned first" syndrome. In any case, wanting that same capability on Linux/Unix/whatever, I wrote an 'xmitmsg' a long time ago. It didn't work well. Later, I took another run at it. It was incomplete, but I looked back into it over the past week or so: seems to be pretty good.
In this project, there is an 'xmitmsg' utility program and a library you can link applications against. The message source files do not have to be compiled or pre-processed and have the _same syntax_ as CMS message source files.
I'd appreciate any feedback y'all can give. Anyone interested? Let me know. The project is here ...
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