Message Report

The Message Report supplements the audit report with additional information about the translation. Warning messages typically identify changes that must be made manually to the Master File. Error messages usually refer you to the Debugging report. In either case, the online menu will display the following message:

ERROR/WARNING MESSAGES GENERATED.  PLEASE CHECK REPORTS.

Consider the following COBOL input description:

01  HDR-REC.                  
        02  HDR-KEY            PIC X(1).
            88 HDR-VALUE       VALUE 'H'. 
        02  HDR-DATA           PIC X(10). 
01  DET-REC.                  
        02  DET-KEY            PIC X(1).  
            88 DTL-VALUE       VALUE 'D'. 
        02  DTL-DATA           PIC X(10).

The Translator creates the following Message Report from this input:

                                     C T F
                                 MESSAGE REPORT       
  CODE                           M E S S A G E        
 ------   ---------------------------------------------------------------

 FR038W   MORE THAN ONE RECORD TYPE GENERATED - 'RECTYPE' FIELD WILL HAVE
          TO BE ADDED TO EACH SEGMENT MANUALLY TO IDENTIFY THE DIFFERENT 
          RECORD TYPES