How to hightlight a fatal error message?

dejunzhu · Active User Joined: 08 May 2008 Posts: 390 Location: China

I'm finding a way to print error message , and this message should be highlighted all the time with specified color, such as RED, so that the operator can moniter the fatal error message and take corresponding actions.

I was trying to do via CICS WRITE OPERATOR command, but the message was printed into system log without special color.

any feasible way to to this?

thanks in advance.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 3:29 pm

just forget about it,
the times when the operator was just sitting looking at the console messages scrolling by
are long gone

why not just let message automation take care of it ???

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 9:08 pm

Is the message being generated by the application program or by CICS itself, such as (for example) prefixed with a "DFH" together with (for example) an ASRA abend-code?

As Enrico has suggested, message automation can take care of this, by screen-scraping the console for a particular message and notifying the associated on-call person(s) via an e-Mail and/or page.

Many of the CICS messages can be re-routed from the default destination of "MSGUSR" (CSMT) to the console, via a user-written GLUE exit-program driven by "XMEOUT".

GLUE exit-programs are not for the faint of heart and requires good Assembler and CICS skills.

dejunzhu · Active User Joined: 08 May 2008 Posts: 390 Location: China

Thanks for your kind reply.

May I ask, is message automation a tool? will it cost? I cannot search out the tool via gooooogle, is it IBM Tivoli System Automation for z/OS
Enterprise Automation?

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:26 pm

Hello,

Yes, yes.

Suggest you search for ibm console automation for IBM/Tivoli info. There are several other vendors also.