Print messages

Messages help you track your system's problems and user activities.

To help you organize system messages, you can print the specific messages that refer to the current problem that you are handling.

To print specific messages one at a time from the message queue, follow these steps:

  1. Enter the Work with Messages (WRKMSG) command, at the command line.
  2. Press F4 to prompt.
  3. In the message queue parameter field, enter the name of the message queue that contains the messages that you want to print.
  4. Press Enter to continue.
  5. (Optional) If you do not have your Assistance Level specified as Basic, press F21. Select option 1=Basic. If you do not have your system set to the basic assistance level, you cannot display the message details.
  6. To display the message that you want to print, enter 5 (Display details) and reply in the Options column.
  7. To print the message, press F6.

You can also track your systems problems by printing all messages in the message queue.

Parent topic: Manage messages
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Print all messages in the message queue