Sending a data set and a message

There may be times when you want to add a message to a data set that you send to another user. To do that, add the MESSAGE operand to the TRANSMIT command. To send data set PREFIX.TEST.DATA plus a message to MIKE on system node NETNY, enter:

TRANSMIT netny.mike DATASET(test.data) MESSAGE

As soon as you press the Enter key, you see the edit panel that is used for messages. After you type your message and press PF3, you see an informational message:

1 message and 106 data records sent as 112 records to NETNY.MIKE
 READY

Your installation may use various security features that affect the way the TRANSMIT command works. If so, the results of transmitting a data set, a member of a partitioned data set, or a data set and message may differ from those described here. z/OS TSO/E User's Guide explains the differences you can expect.

Exercise

Following the examples beginning at Sending data sets in line mode TSO/E, send a data set to someone at your installation. Then send a member of a data set to someone at your installation. Notice the different types of messages that appear. You can also send a data set to two people by enclosing their ‘system nodes.user IDs’ in parentheses. The following example uses accepted abbreviations:

XMIT (netny.mike,netny.ann) DA(test.data)