Defining messages for external translation

Messages for external translation are also defined in ISTVTMEU. All of the messages for external translation are messages that are written to the system console. You should not change the U.S. English form of these messages in ISTVTMEU, because ISTVTMEU must correspond exactly with ISTINCNO for external translation to occur. For operator messages, you should use the IBM-supplied default table, ISTINCNO, rather than using a customized operator USS table.

For translation to other languages, provide a language skeleton file similar to ISTVTMEU with the translated text. For example, VTAM® message IST001I is defined as follows in ISTVTMEU:

IST001I     001    VTAM START REJECTED - &1.
IST001I     002    &modnm. VTAM START REJECTED - &1.

The text of this message could be changed to French in a new skeleton file named ISTVTFRA. It is necessary to have two formats of this message: one for the message without the module name and one for the message with the module name. MMS will select the format that most closely matches the message received and perform the translation by selecting the corresponding message with the corresponding format number from the new French skeleton file.

For example, assume ISTVTFRA has the following definition for IST001I:

IST001I     001    &1. - REJECT START
IST001I     002    &modnm. &1. - REJECT START

With the above skeletons coded, a TSO/E 2.2 user using an MCS extended console with the primary language of FRA will have the following VTAM message translated as shown below:

 
Message issued by VTAM:
IST001I VTAM START REJECTED — TERMINATION IN PROGRESS
 
Translated message on MCS Extended console
IST001I TERMINATION IN PROGRESS — REJECT START

The translated messages can be in any language supported by MMS, including double-byte character set languages. The only restriction is that the terminal being used for a given language must support that language with the correct character set and code page, or erroneous output or I/O errors can occur. Translated messages can also be defined as multiline messages if more than one line is needed to express the error in the translation language.