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Message Records

Event Management provides two categories of message records to identify important events:

Message

Represents the output text string received by Event Management and displayed on the Event Console.

Command

Represents the text string entered by someone operating the Event Console. (You can enter commands at the command field of the console, use customized buttons to automatically issue commands, or enter these commands as command line arguments provided to the oprcmd command.)

z/OS UNIX command output can be used as a source of text that you can substitute into the message text in database message records during the message matching process.

For example, the string "pwd" in the database record message text field causes the current directory to be inserted into the message text.