GDSX Management Programming Manual

Event Messages

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Standard EMS Token

Table 6-4 lists a standard EMS token that appears in all event messages but is not a

message-header token; it is an unconditional token.

For more information about ZEMS-TKN-SUBJECT-MARK, see the EMS Manual.

Subject Token

ZEMS-TKN-SUBJECT-MARK indicates the subject token, which identifies the GDS

object that is most directly involved in the event. The subject token indicates the

following token as present in the event-message buffer:

The subject token indicated by ZEMS-TKN-SUBJECT-MARK contains the name of the

specific object involved in the event. For example, if an event message reports an

event involving a process named PROC8, ZEMS-TKN-SUBJECT-MARK indicates the

subject token ZGDS-TKN-PROCNAME, whose contents is the name PROC8.

Subsystem-Specific Tokens

Table 6-5 lists standard subsystem-specific EMS tokens that appear in all GDS

subsystem event messages.

Table 6-4. Standard EMS Token

Token Description

ZEMS-TKN-SUBJECT-MARK

ZSPI-TYP-MARK

Indirectly identifies the GDS subsystem object or file that

is most involved in the event. It always immediately the

subject token.

GDS Token Description

ZGDS-TKN-PROCNAME

Event concerns a process.