NonStop Operating System Event Management Programming Manual
Header and Common Tokens
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Common Tokens
Common Tokens
Every EMS event message has a non-header section consisting of one or more of a 
common set of tokens.
ZEMS- tokens are standard EMS tokens. For more information about these tokens, 
see the EMS Manual.
Table 2-2. Common Event-Message Non-Header Tokens
Non-Header Token Token Type What Token Specifies
ZEMS-TKN-ACTION-NEEDED ZSPI-TYP-BOOLEAN Action event message (see 
Action Events
 on page 1-4)
ZEMS-TKN-SUBJECT-MARK ZSPI-TYP-MARK That the next token is the 
subject token
ZEMS-TKN-TEXT ZSPI-TYP-STRING Message text. The displayed 
text is generated from the event 
template, if available. If an event 
template does not exist, the 
TEXT token is used, and if 
neither exist, an EMSTEXT 
error message is displayed.
ZGRD-TKN-TOSVERSION ZSPI-TYP-BYTE-PAIR Product version of the operating 
system that is currently loaded, 
with the RVU letter in ASCII 
format in bits <0:7> and the 
RVU number in binary format in 
bits <8:15>
ZGRD-TKN-CPU-TYPE ZSPI-TYP-UINT Processor type of the operating 
system component that 
generated the event message 
for D-series NonStop operating 
system RVUs*
ZCPU-TKN-CPU-TYPE ZSPI-TYP-INT Processor type of the operating 
system component that 
generated the event message 
on the G06.04 and subsequent 
G-series and H-series NonStop 
operating system RVUs*
* For descriptions of processor types, see Table 2-3 on page 2-4.










