Message Contents workspace

Use the Message Contents workspace to view the application section of messages and review their contents.

Predefined views

The Message Contents workspace includes the following predefined views:

  • Message Contents This view shows the application section of the selected message, which contains the message contents, including the first four kilobytes of message data in character form. You can also view the information about the CCSIDs that are used to convert the message data to different forms, and whether conversion was successful. If the contents of one of the cells containing message data is too long to be contained within a single cell, the contents of a single message are displayed on multiples rows. This is indicated by an asterisk (*) displayed at either end of cells containing character or converted data.

    The message content might contain one or more MQ headers. The IBM® MQ Monitoring agent processes these headers before it displays the message data in this workspace. For those MQ headers that are supported by the IBM MQ Monitoring agent and are documented in the Message Descriptor workspace of this guide, the headers themselves will be stripped out from the message content. The attributes of the headers are displayed in the Message Descriptor workspace. For certain types of MQ headers, although the agent cannot recognize the correct CCSID of the data following the headers, the agent treats them as normal data and displays them with the data following them in this workspace. In this situation, garbage data might be displayed in both the Character Data and Converted Data columns.

  • Message Log The message log gives you an overview of changes in the status of your monitored system. It also provides information about the status of monitoring agents and other system events. For more information on this view, see Tivoli® Enterprise Portal Help.

For more information on the attributes listed in the tables of this workspace, see Message Data attributes.

Predefined links

No other workspaces can be linked to from the Message Contents workspace.