WTO


This command sends a message to one or more system consoles.


Command

Parameters

WTO

'messageText'

[JOBID(n)]

[ROUTCDE(n1 ... nn)]

[DESC(n1 ... nn)]

[CONSOLE|CN(n)]

[SSID(YES|NO)]

[NAME(x)]

The following table describes the parameters:

Parameter

Function

Notes

messageText

Text of the message to send

Maximum length is 119 characters when the SSID parameter uses the default value of YES; if the SSID is specified with NO, the maximum length is increased to 126.

JOBID

Job identifier to place in SYSLOG as message issuer

Range is 1-8 characters alphanumeric, first character alpha.

ROUTCDE

Routing codes to associate with the message

See IBM publication, Routing and Descriptor Codes, for more information.

DESC

Descriptor codes to associate with the message

See IBM publication, Routing and Descriptor Codes, for more information.

CONSOLE

CN

Specific Console ID of console to receive the message

This parameter is a numeric identifier.

You can specify NAME() or CONSOLE(), but you cannot specify both. If you omit the CONSOLE|CN and NAME keywords, the system uses the routing code specified on the ROUTCODE keyword on the DEFAULT statement in the CONSOLxx member of SYS1.PARMLIB.

SSID

Appends the subsystem ID to the end of the message

This parameter is either YES or NO; the default is YES.

NAME

Valid console name to where the message is sent

You can specify NAME() or CONSOLE(), but you cannot specify both. If you omit the CONSOLE|CN and NAME keywords, the system uses the routing code specified on the ROUTCODE keyword on the DEFAULT statement in the CONSOLxx member of SYS1.PARMLIB.

Condition codes are listed in the following table:

Value

Description

0

Command was executed successfully. The variable IMFWTDOM contains the DOM ID for this WTO. You may need to use this value in a later invocation of the IMFEXEC DOM command to delete the message again.

4

Set when the WTOR is issued with Msgtext truncated because it exceeded the maximum length.

8

Set when invalid syntax is detected. These errors are flagged by TSO/EIKJ xxxxx messages or by BMC AMI Ops Automation short error messages or both.

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