Chapter 17. Editing and Formatting Messages
IMS uses two methods to edit and format messages to and from terminals: Message Format Service (MFS) and basic edit routines. IMS also provides exit routines to edit:
• Input and output from a terminal
• Transaction codes
• Input message fields
• Input message segments
• Message switching
This chapter presents an overview of MFS and the IMS basic edit function, introduces MFS control blocks for message formatting, and summarizes the responsibilities of the MFS administrator.
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Message Format Service
MFS is an IMS facility that creates and formats transaction input and output metadata to support device-independent application programming. IMS ...
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