Output Format of the Messages

Depending on the message definition, openUTM outputs the messages in different formats:

• to SYSLOG and MSGTAC:
  the message header without the message text and the current values of all inserts, as described in the section "Structure of UTM system messages"

• to CONSOLE:
  the application name, the message number and the message text with the inserts contained in the text

• to USER-DEST-1...USER-DEST-4:

  • the message header without the message text and the current values of all inserts as described in the section "Structure of UTM system messages", if USER-DEST-n is generated with MSG-FORMAT=FILE

  • the date/time followed by the message number, message text and all inserts if USER-DEST-n is generated with MSG-FORMAT=PRINT

• to all other destinations:
  the message number and the message text with the inserts contained in the text. In certain error situations during an application run (abnormal termination of an application, program or task) openUTM may only output a message to SYSOUT, SYSLST or CONSOLE, even though the message was meant for other destinations (e.g. SYSLOG). This is done to prevent any further errors that might result. 
  For the same reason, in certain error situations openUTM does not take the message text from the message module that can be modified by the user, but from the system message module.

Header with date and time for messages to SYSLST / SYSOUT

When outputting messages to the message destinations SYSLST and SYSOUT, by default openUTM precedes the messages with a header containing the date and time. One benefit of this is that it allows errors to be diagnosed more easily.

The header has the following format:

yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss

Messages K038 and K044 are always output without this header. You can use the start parameter UTM-MSG-DATE=NO to suppress the output of this header for all other messages as well.