z/VM: CP Commands and Utilities Reference - z/VM - IBM

QUERY VMSG/PVMSG
QUERY VMSG/PVMSG
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Query
Authorization
Purpose
Operands
Responses
VMSG
PVMSG
Privilege Class: G
Use QUERY VMSG/PVMSG to recall the last 16 messages that your virtual
machine operating system sent to the system console.
The z/VM control program, as part of its service processor simulation, intercepts
these messages and displays them on the virtual machine operator console.
For operating system messages requiring an operator response, use the VINPUT
command to direct the z/VM control program to send data to the operating system
running in your virtual machine as though the data had been entered from the
system console.
VMSG
requests a list of the last 16 nonpriority messages that the operating system
running in your virtual machine sent to the system console.
PVMSG
requests a list of the last 16 priority messages which the operating system
running in your virtual machine sent to the system console.
Response 1:
1 [H] [Prompt text:] message text1
2 [H] [Prompt text:] message text2
...
nnn [H] [Prompt text:] message text nnn
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where messages 1 through nnn are the last 16 messages (of the type requested)
that the operating system running in your virtual machine sent to the system
console. They are displayed in the order of their receipt. Note that the list does not
include messages deleted by the virtual machine console operator or by the
operating system running in your virtual machine.
The H is displayed on an operating system message designated by the operating
system to be “held” until it has been deleted by the virtual machine console
operator or by the operating system running in your virtual machine. These
messages are displayed even though they may not be within the last 16 messages
intercepted.
“Prompt text” identifies message text the operating system has designated as a
prompt, associated with a related message.
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