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OPS/REXX Interface to Messages

Use the ADDRESS MESSAGE statement to specify an alternative environment during debugging. CA OPS/MVS customers typically use the MESSAGE host environment as the default host environment to prevent badly coded rules from issuing invalid commands, but you can specify a different default environment through the AOFDEFAULTADDRESS parameter. For more information, see the description of the AOFDEFAULTADDRESS parameter in the Parameter Reference.

All commands issued to ADDRESS MESSAGE generate a message (with the ID OPS4200I) displaying the command text. For example, the following statement generates the message D A,L:

address MESSAGE
  "D A,L"

You can control the disposition of such messages (and all normal CA OPS/MVS messages) by changing the message suffix.