Console messages

The message domain supports the use of MVS™ message routing codes in the range 1 to 16 for those messages that are sent to the console.

By default, if the issuing module specifies only CONSOLE (without a qualifying number) as the destination, CICS® routes the message with MVS route codes 2 and 11. This support is available for all domain-type messages of the form DFHxxnnnn, where xx is the domain code and nnnn is the message number.

CICS issues other messages (of the form DFHnnnn) with either no route code or route codes other than 2 and 11.

The physical destination of these messages is controlled by the ROUTECODE parameter on the MVS console entries in a SYS1.PARMLIB member, CONSOLEnn. For further information about MVS console definitions, see the z/OS MVS Initialization and Tuning Guide .