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Message Check Utility

CA Disk Message Check is a utility centralizing messages from different jobs for viewing and decision-making from one location. The application uses SYSOUT EXIT to filter messages and write them to data sets (message data sets). As a system administrator you can then run batch jobs to consolidate all message data sets into a single work data set and report on it.

Comparing JOBNAME does message filtering and CA Disk messages with two user-defined tables with JOBNAME/prefixes and CA Disk message number/word/strings. The two tables are PDS members and can be updated at any time through ISPF panels. The selected messages are written to dynamically allocated message data sets. DSN of a message data set is determined by the user specified prefix (through the application ISPF panel) and JOBNAME. When consolidating message data sets, messages are merged and sorted into generation data sets and all message data sets are then deleted. Message check does not alter any CA Disk job output.

Message check supports the following DD: