The Add Message Description (ADDMSGD) command allows you to specify a default value for a reply to your message.
A default reply must meet the same validity checking values as the other replies for the message or be specified as a special value in the message description. A default value is used when a user has indicated (using the CHGMSGQ command) that default replies should be issued for all inquiry messages sent to the user's message queue. Default replies are also sent when the unanswered inquiry messages are deleted. For example, the workstation user uses the DSPMSG command to display messages, and removes unanswered inquiry messages by pressing either F13 to delete all the messages or F11 to delete a particular message.
Default replies are also used when the job attribute of INQMSGRPY is set to *DFT and may be used if set to *SYSRPYL option. You can use the system reply list to change the default reply.
Default replies are also used on the Display Program Messages screen (which shows messages that are sent to *EXT). The sending of the default reply occurs during either of the two following conditions: .