The formatting of the messages is a console function, not a JES function, and is driven by parameters on the WTO macro and by how you are configured. One of the options is ulti-line WTO and, AFAIK, there is no COBOL support for it.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Donald Johnson Jr. [000002ee771a0785-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Question on wrapped JESMSGLG messages I have a peculiar question and hope the answer is easily found in this group. Looking at these highlighted values 08.17.38 JOB57837 DJMU2DF:DB01900I - MUF DJMU2DF,99,NO 08.17.38 JOB57837 DJMU2DF:DB01909E - * - ASTERISK 682 682 POINTS NEAR ERROR 08.05.17 JOB57048 IEC161I 056-084,CICSABCD,$$$$$$@ $$$$$$@,DFHLCD,,, 571 571 IEC161I OMY.CICS.DFHLCD,OMY.CICS.DFHLCD.DATA, 571 IEC161I ICF.ABCD.USERCAT I know that the number is a cross-reference for continued lines in Syslog and the user joblog, and I have never thought twice about it before. However, I have someone asking about this, and I realized that I don't really know how it works. My questions are: 1. What drives this process? I assume it is part of JES message handling 2. Is the line length before wrapping a message held in a parameter somewhere? 3. What causes some messages to use the #, and others to just wrap. For example, if I write a COBOL program with DISPLAY...UPON CONSOLE, the lines just wrap in the Syslog, with no ### identifier. Other jobs or STCs write messages like the above, with the continuation number. 4. Is there some doc I can point to for my colleague to understand this? We all know what it is, and most of us probably don't care how it works, but I figure that someone knows what this is called, how it is configured, and how it works for different messages. Thanks all! Don Don Johnson Broadcom donald.johnso...@broadcom.com | broadcom.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
