Remarks

Any remarks for the MNOTE instruction statement must be separated by one or more spaces from the apostrophe that ends the message.

If severity is provided, or severity is omitted but the comma separating it from message is present, the message is treated as an error message; otherwise the message is treated as comments. The rules for specifying the contents of severity are:

The severity code can be specified as any arithmetic expression allowed in the operand field of a SETA instruction. The expression must have a value in the range 0 through 255.
Example:
```
         MNOTE 2,'ERROR IN SYNTAX'
```
The generated result is:
```
         2,ERROR IN SYNTAX
```
If the severity code is omitted, but the comma separating it from the message is present, the assembler assigns a default value of 1 as the severity code.
Example:
```
         MNOTE ,'ERROR, SEV 1'
```
The generated result is:
```
         ,ERROR, SEV 1
```
An asterisk in the severity code subfield causes the message and the asterisk to be generated as a comment statement.
Example:
```
         MNOTE *,'NO ERROR'
```
The generated result is:
```
         *,NO ERROR
```
Here is an example taken from a CICS® macro:
```
MNOTE 8,'FIELD IS DEFINED OUTSIDE OF THE SIZE OPERAND'
MNOTE *,'PARAMETERS SPECIFIED IN THE DFHMDI MACRO,'
MNOTE *,'MACRO REQUEST IS IGNORED.'
```
A further advantage of this approach is that only one severity 8 error is seen instead of three.
If the severity code subfield is omitted, including the comma separating it from the message, the assembler generates the message as a comment statement.
Example:
```
         MNOTE 'NO ERROR'
```
The generated result is:
```
         NO ERROR
```

Notes:

An MNOTE instruction causes a message to be printed, if the current PRINT option is ON, even if the PRINT NOGEN option is specified.
The statement number of the message generated from an MNOTE instruction with a severity code is listed among any other error messages for the current source module. However, the message is printed only if the severity code specified is greater than or equal to the severity code nnn specified in the FLAG(nnn) assembler option.
The statement number of the comments generated from an MNOTE instruction without a severity code is not listed among other error messages.