Purpose

The Generate Message Catalog Utility (GENCAT) does not accept symbolic message identifiers; you must use the MKCATDEF utility if you want to use symbolic message identifiers in you message source file for use with GENCAT.

Description

MKCATDEF processes a message source file containing symbolic identifiers and produces the following output:

• The SYMBOLNAME.H file, containing statements that equate symbolic identifiers with the set numbers and message ID numbers assigned by MKCATDEF. You must include the SYMBOLNAME.H file in your application program to associate the symbolic names to the set and message numbers assigned by MKCATDEF.

• A new message source file containing message numbers instead of symbolic message identifiers. This output is suitable for input to GENCAT.

After running MKCATDEF, you can use symbolic names in an application to refer to messages.

For more information on MKCATDEF, see Preprocess Message Source File Utility (MKCATDEF).