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Status Submitted
Workspace IBM i
Categories Work Management and Messaging
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 3, 2025

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Enable a description to be added to system reply list entries

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When you use the wrkrpyle command you see a list of Message ID's which is quite meaningless.

I recently was investigating at a new site where there were a lot of reply list messages and no site documentation so I worked through the messages to determine what the message ID related to and how/if it might be contributing to the issue I was investigating.  As part of this I created a document with a description for each.

Most objects on the system have a 50 character text description that can be added and generally displayed when viewing the list like in wrkobj and wrkdevd etcetera.

My idea is to add a text description to the addrpyle and chgrpyle commands.

 Text 'description' . . . . . . .   'Used by backups to check something'              

I think this assists greatly in documenting why the entry was added and in my case would have saved a lot of time investigating a long list of message id's

 

Idea priority Low

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