Statements

In batch jobs and procedures, message processing is controlled by means of statements. The operands and their possible values correspond in most cases to the mask fields and their entries.
Most statement names are the same as the corresponding mask titles.

Once MSGMAKER has been called, message processing usually begins with the //OPEN-MSG-FILE statement. Once opened, the message file can be processed using all the other functions. The COPY, MOVE, SHOW and MERGE-MSG-FILES functions can be called directly for processing the message file.