Viewing error messages

If an error occurs when FM/CICS attempts to process a panel, a short text message displays in the upper right corner of the screen. While this message is displayed, pressing F1 displays the expanded text of the error message at the bottom of the screen.

Figure 1 shows the short text message "Empty print data set" (in upper right corner) with the expanded text (shown in bold) at the bottom of the screen.

Figure 1. Utility Functions panel showing expanded message

  Process   Options   Help
 FM/CICS                       Utility Functions           Empty print data set

 0  DBCS          Set DBCS data format for print
 2  Print         Print data
 4  List          List resources
 5  Printdsn      Browse FM/CICS print data set
 6  Audit trail   Print audit trail report

 Processing Options:
  CICS Resource
  1  1. File
     2. Temporary Storage
     3. Transient Data





 The PRINTDSN print data set FMNUSERFMNCICS.LIST is empty
 Command ===>
 F1=Help     F3=Exit     F4=CRetriev F7=Backward F8=Forward  F10=Actions
 F12=Cancel