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You issued an MVS command using a CART value of 'C1D7D7D3F2F9F6F8'X. You want to retrieve the message that was issued in response to the command and place the message in variables starting with the stem "DMSG". You want GETMSG to wait up to 1 minute (60 seconds) for the message. Specify GETMSG as follows.

msgrett = getmsg('dmsg','sol','C1D7D7D3F2F9F6F8'X,,60)

getcode = GETMSG('msg.','either','maint',,10)

msgstem

the stem of the list of variables into which GETMSG places the message text. To place the message text into compound variables, which allow for indexing, msgstem should end with a period (for example, "messg."). GETMSG places each line of the retrieved message into successive variables. For example, if GETMSG retrieves a message that has three lines of text, GETMSG places each line of message text into the variables messg.1, messg.2, messg.3. GETMSG stores the number of lines of message text in the variable ending in 0, messg.0.

Note:
If messg.0=0, no lines are associated with this message. This message might be a delete operator message (DOM) request. For more information about the DOM macro, see z/OS MVS Programming: Authorized Assembler Services Reference ALE-DYN.
If msgstem does not end with a period, the variable names are appended with consecutive numbers. For example, suppose you specify msgstem as "conmsg" (without a period). If GETMSG retrieves a message that has two lines of message text, GETMSG places the text into the variables conmsg1 and conmsg2. The variable conmsg0 contains the number of lines of message text, which is 2.

In addition to the variables into which GETMSG places the retrieved message text, GETMSG also sets additional variables. The additional variables relate to the field names in the message data block (MDB) for MVS/ESA™ System Product. For more information about these variables, see Additional variables that GETMSG sets.