System Level Procedures: Message Profiles › Message Profile

Message Profile

The concept of the message profile is that all the attributes of a message should be available as specific settings of a special group of system variables. The profile variables can be tested for specific values to assist the procedure in deciding whether special processing is needed for a message or whether the message is of no importance to the procedure. Since testing variables for specific values is easier than scanning text strings, examination of a message's profile provides a simpler and more efficient method of message analysis.

All profile variables are available in Mapped Data Object (MDO) format for the &INTREAD, &LOGREAD and &MSGREAD verbs. The object stem name for each verb is unique, but they are all mapped by the same map, that is $MSG.

• For &INTREAD the stem name is $INT.
• For &LOGREAD the stem name is $LOG.
• For &MSGREAD the stem name is $MSG.

The $MSG MDO can contain additional information that is not available in the profile variables.

The $MSG map definition is part of the your product's distributed system and can be reviewed from Mapping Services (option D.M from the Primary Menu).

Note: Most of the data components are optional.