Add Administrator Alert Criteria

Press F6=Add to Add a new administrator alert criteria to those already defined. The following parameters are available for selection on this display.

Entry ID

This is a system generated ID that uniquely identifies a unique selection criteria. Once assigned, this ID cannot be amended.

Message ID

Specify the message ID that you want to select for this criteria.

*ALL All message ID’s are selected
msgid* Enter a specific message ID
Message File

Specify the message file containing the messages to select for this criteria.

*ALL All message files are selected
name Enter a specific message file name
Message file library

Specify the message file library of the messages to be selected.

*ALL All message file libraries are selected
name Enter a specific message file library name
Message data

Specifies text that must be found within the message data in order for the message to be selected. Alternatively, leave this parameter blank to select all messages regardless of data content. To check for blank message data, leave this parameter blank but specify the required values in the ‘Starting position’ and ‘Length to compare’ parameters.

Starting Position

If text, or blank message data, is specified in the Message Data parameter, use this parameter to specify the starting position within the message data of where the text can be found.

*ANY The text can be anywhere within the message data
1-999 Enter the exact starting position
Length to compare

If text, or blank message data, is specified in the ‘Message data’ parameter, use this parameter to specify the text length to be compared with the message data entry.

*LEN The right-trimmed length of the text in the ‘Message data’ parameter is used
1-40 Enter the actual text length
Minimum severity

Enter the minimum severity of the messages that should be selected. Enter ‘0’ to specify that any message severity is selected.

Job name

Enter the name of the job that sent the message.

*ALL All jobs are selected
name Enter a specific message file library name
User name

Enter the user name from the job that sent the message.

*ALL All user names are selected
name Enter a specific user name
Program name

Enter the name of the program that sent the message.

*ALL All program names are selected
name Enter a specific program name

Press Enter to add the new administrator alert criteria to those already defined.