Decide whether to translate your check exception messages into other national languages

If you want to translate your check exception messages into other national languages, there are a couple of things you will need to keep in mind as you code your exception message texts. For example in order to be translated, message texts must be 71 characters or less, so you must break up the WTO exception message text lines with <lines></lines> tags. For complete information about calculating line lengths for your exception message text and how to break up lines, see Message text (<msgtext>) and message variable (<mv>) tags. For information on using MMS, see Translating messages in z/OS MVS Programming: Assembler Services Guide.

IBM® Health Checker for z/OS® can generate the skeletons for your messages at the same time you generate the message table CSECT using the HZSMSGEN exec, see Support for translating messages to other languages.