AMALRCV20 messages returned when NetMaster receives a OPSMVS Alert

Products

• NetMaster Network Management for TCP/IP
• NetMaster File Transfer Management
• NetMaster Network Automation
• NetMaster Network Management for SNA
• Unicenter NetMaster Network Management for SNA

Issue/Introduction

OPSMVS generated an Alert that is correctly received by NetMaster. However, some messages like the following are returned:

AMALRCV20 $AMALRCV received bad variable: <variable name>

Environment

Release : 12.2

Resolution

NetMaster issues the AMALRCV20 message, strips out the bad character and saves the Alert. But it also dumps the alert variables, so the bad characters can be removed or converted before sending the Alert to NetMaster.

 

For example, NetMaster returned the following AMALRCV20 messages:

00.17.45.06  BG-SYS    <userid>   AMALRCV20 $AMALRCV received bad variable: DESC
.
00.17.45.17  BG-SYS    <userid>   AMALRCV20 $AMALRCV received bad variable: TEXT2

The dumped variables are:

00.17.45.15  BG-SYS    <userid>   DESC ...................................  <applid> SRVALERT DFHRM0301 SEV4 Force purge of   
                                  transaction ID&has been deferred                                                            
and:
00.17.45.18  BG-SYS    <userid>   TEXT.{2} ...............................   ID&has been deferred DFHRM0301 <applid>  Force   
                                  purge of transaction                                                                        

Comparing the values of these dumped variables with the Alert in NetMaster, in this case the stripped characters are two ampersands.