ibm-information-center/dist/eclipse/plugins/i5OS.ic.nls_5.4.0.1/rbagsmessagecatalogs.htm

73 lines
5.2 KiB
HTML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="security" content="public" />
<meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" />
<meta http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0) "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l gen true r (SS~~000 1))' />
<meta name="DC.Type" content="concept" />
<meta name="DC.Title" content="Use message catalogs" />
<meta name="abstract" content="The operating system can use message catalogs to store messages. Messages in a message catalog are grouped as sets. Each message has a unique number within a set. You can create a message catalog as a stream file, a source file member, or a user space object type from one or more source files." />
<meta name="description" content="The operating system can use message catalogs to store messages. Messages in a message catalog are grouped as sets. Each message has a unique number within a set. You can create a message catalog as a stream file, a source file member, or a user space object type from one or more source files." />
<meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rbagsdevelopingappsprog.htm" />
<meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rbagsmsgcatsource.htm" />
<meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rbagsusemessagecatalogs.htm" />
<meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="../cl/gencat.htm" />
<meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="../cl/mrgmsgclg.htm" />
<meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rbagsccsidmsgsup2.htm" />
<meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" />
<meta name="DC.Rights.Owner" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" />
<meta name="DC.Format" content="XHTML" />
<meta name="DC.Identifier" content="rbagsmessagecatalogs" />
<meta name="DC.Language" content="en-us" />
<!-- All rights reserved. Licensed Materials Property of IBM -->
<!-- US Government Users Restricted Rights -->
<!-- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by -->
<!-- GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ibmdita.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ic.css" />
<title>Use message catalogs</title>
</head>
<body id="rbagsmessagecatalogs"><a name="rbagsmessagecatalogs"><!-- --></a>
<!-- Java sync-link --><script language="Javascript" src="../rzahg/synch.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<h1 class="topictitle1">Use message catalogs</h1>
<div><p>The operating system can use message catalogs to store messages.
Messages in a message catalog are grouped as sets. Each message has a unique
number within a set. You can create a message catalog as a stream file, a
source file member, or a user space object type from one or more source files.</p>
<p>Because you can store message catalogs as stream files, you can use directories
to isolate messages for specific products or national language versions.</p>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Create or update a message catalog with the GENCAT and MRGMSGCLG
commands</h4><p>You can use both the Generate Message Catalog (GENCAT)
command or the Merge Message Catalog (MRGMSGCLG) command to create or update
a message catalog. When a message catalog exists, continued use
of these commands updates a catalog by comparing the original messages to
the messages in the source. New message text replaces specific messages without
changing the other messages within the set. With these commands, you can add
or delete messages from an existing set of messages. You can also delete sets
of messages from an existing message catalog.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<ul class="ullinks">
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rbagsmsgcatsource.htm">Source for message catalogs</a></strong><br />
The source for a message catalog is either a source physical file, a stream file, or multiple files. The source contains fields to define set numbers, message numbers, message text, or to specify sets to delete.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rbagsusemessagecatalogs.htm">Open, extract, and close message catalogs</a></strong><br />
After you have created a message catalog, you can use these functions.</li>
</ul>
<div class="familylinks">
<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rbagsdevelopingappsprog.htm" title="As you develop your globalized applications, the national language version environment often requires that you pay additional attention to how you prepare and compile your code.">Programming considerations in globalized application design</a></div>
</div>
<div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br />
<div><a href="rbagsccsidmsgsup2.htm" title="Use CCSID support for handling messages and message catalogs on i5/OS.">CCSID support for messages</a></div>
</div>
<div class="relref"><strong>Related reference</strong><br />
<div><a href="../cl/gencat.htm">Generate Message Catalog (GENCAT) command</a></div>
<div><a href="../cl/mrgmsgclg.htm">Merge Message Catalog (MRGMSGCLG) command</a></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>