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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM i
Categories System Management
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 19, 2017

More variable option at SNDSMTPEMM command or upgrade Message Monitors.

We need more variable for command SNDSMTPEMM for content of a message queue like IBM System Director.


Use Case:

i am a technical guy from business partner NCT SI and have seen your last presentation " Predivtive Performance Managment. It was very intresting for me. I have a question to command SNDSMTEMM.

It is possilbe to include the content of a messagequeue that was monitoring like IBM System director?

Exemple IBM Director Server:
MAX0906 Configuration TOOLJRN ended.

Ereignistext MAX0906 Configuration TOOLJRN ended.
Datum 18.09.2017 08:16 CEST
Wertigkeit Kritisch
Ereignistyp IBM i.Nachrichtenwarteschlange.QUSRSYS/NOMAX.MAX0906
Systemname PVBACKUP
Absendername PVBACKUP

Nachrichtenwarteschlange="QUSRSYS/NOMAX"
Nachrichten-ID="MAX0906"
Nachrichtenschlüssel="X'000355B0'"
Nachrichtentyp="04"
Nachrichtenbewertung=40
Datum/Uhrzeit der Nachrichtensendung="Mon Sep 18 08:08:42 CEST 2017"
Nachrichtenverteilerjob="TOOLJRNRCVNCTSUPPORT055698"
Alertfähig=true


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Sep 28, 2022
    &MSGTEXT provides this feature as requested. See this page for detailed information: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1163998.

    IBM Power Systems Development
  • Guest
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    Aug 17, 2022
    The &MSGTEXT variable was added to the list of message monitor replacement variables. Does this fulfill your requirement? If not, please provide more information on what is wanted. See this page for more details and other links: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1163998
    IBM Power Systems Development
  • Guest
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    Jun 15, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - System Management
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - Networking
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None

  • Guest
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    May 12, 2020

    After consulting L1C team, they did not support the message content currently.
    The message related subsitutions are as below.
    &MSGKEY Message key hex value (4-byte binary) identifying the message causing the trigger.
    &MSGKEYCH Message key hex value (4-byte character array) identifying the message causing the trigger.
    ??? SNDMSG(&MSGKEYCH) will be shown in ebcdic (unreadable)
    ??? If dumped from memory when passed to a CL program, it will show the hex value that matches the &MSGKEY hex value (ie 00003D20)
    &MSGID Message ID causing the trigger (length 7).
    &MSGSEV Message severity causing the trigger (length 1-2).
    &MSGTYPE Message type causing the trigger (length 2).
    &MSGCOUNT Current message count that caused the trigger (length 1-3).

    For all supported subsitutions, please refer to page https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1163998 .

    If you want to get the message content in the trigger command, please open a new RFE for the L1C team.

  • Guest
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    May 11, 2020

    Hello ,

    you have write "The message contents can be referred by the IBM i trigger command and feeded to CL SNDSMTPEMM, then, the email sent out would contain message contents" have you a example for the "referred by for me"?

  • Guest
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    May 6, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - Networking
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - Languages - CL (Control Language)
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None

  • Guest
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    Nov 20, 2018

    Perhaps Monitors in IBM Navigator for i could satisfy this requirement.
    You can create a message monitor to monitor a specified message or sets of messages in a message queues. IBM i trigger command can be specified when defining this monitor. When the monitored messages arrived in the message queue, the IBM i command will be executed. With this capability, if you want to send the monitored messages to one central place, you can specify SNDSMTPEMM in the IBM i trigger command. The message contents can be referred by the IBM i trigger command and feeded to CL SNDSMTPEMM, then, the email sent out would contain message contents.

    For detailed information, please refer to https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzahx/rzahxmonparent.htm
    You can also refer to the help document in the IBM Navigator for i.