EDTMSGD Edit or Copy message descriptions within message files
Message files are notoriously painful to edit and this power tool lets you view all the existing messages and actively edit or clone any message ID’s on the screen. Terrific time saver for creating bunches of similar error messages.
One of the neat functions of this command is its ability to clone other messages in the message file.
For example – if you want to update CPF Message CPX2313 (a technique to change the system request 3 option from DSPJOB to WRKJOB) you would do this:
EDTMSGD MSGID(CPX2313) FILE(QCPFMSG)
One of our French clients requested this to allow cloning messages and having side by side versions of messages in different languages.