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First Level

The first level text of a message should give a concise statement of what is wrong or what has happened. A substitution variable can be used to relate the message to a particular entered value. For example:

"Invalid person code &1 entered"

On IBM i, messages should be given in the form "A in B"; for example, "Object &1 not found in library &2".