Message Commands Tab

Message Criteria Settings

A filter for messages.  When criteria set is specified, it can be used to browse, copy, move, re-route and delete messages which satisfy the selected criteria's specifications.  When a message criteria record is selected to filter messages, it also applies to the Put New Message option. Message criteria are also available to set default MQMD header values when you load messages from a file (Load from File option).

Message Criteria

Select an existing message criteria set from the drop-down list to apply to the messages.  Only one message criteria set can be specified.

Configure button

Create, edit or delete Message Criteria. See Filtering messages across viewlets with message criteria configurations.

Browse Settings

The following describes browse options:

Message Cursor

Enter message cursor; that is, where to start reading the message.  Range: 1 – 999999999.  Default: 1  (Required)

Data Offset

Enter message data offset.  (Required)

Message Count

Enter the number of messages to be displayed in the Message tab.  (Required) 
The default setting is 500, but the Administrator can change this to any value from 1 to 1,000.  However, if the user enters a value that is greater than the default, it will not be saved.  The value will revert to the default. 

Data Size

Enter the message data size (in bytes) you would like the system to load.  (Required)

Load full msg. for XML and Decode views

Full messages are needed for XML and decode views.  Enable this option to allow full messages to be loaded when in an XML or decode view. 

When enabled, the system can be configured so that a confirmation prompt can appear before loading the full message.  See below Prompt options to select desired criteria.

Prompt

When the Load full msg. for XML and Decode views option is enabled, the Prompt options appear.  These options control whether to display a confirmation prompt before loading a full message for XML and decode views.  Select one of the following options:

• Always:  Before loading full messages, the system will ask the user if the full message should be loaded.
• If message size in bytes >:  Specify an amount.  The prompt asking if the full message should load will only appear when the message size is larger than the size specified.
• Never:  a confirmation prompt will never appear.

Messages Selection by radio buttons

Provides Copy/Move/Delete options.  Available when User settings is clicked or if you are in Copy/Move/Delete messages operations.

As noted in the description on the dialog, the disadvantage of selecting messages by position (the Message Position method) is that a message’s position might change within a queue.  For this reason, when you select the Message Position method, the icons for deleting, rerouting, copying, and editing are not available when multiple individual messages are selected. You can still choose to copy, move, or delete all messages using the message(s) pop-up menu.

Restore Default button

Restores the default settings.