Question : Sending 'Test' Messages

I am creating a monitoring utilty that watches my QYSOPR and QSYSMSG message queue.  I was wondering if there was a way to send a test message to the QSYSMSG queue to verify if my program is working.  One of the CPF* ID's that I am watching for is CPF0907 (Disk is filling up).  I want to send a CPF0907 to the QSYSMSG message queue to see if my program will "catch" it.

I appreciate any help.

Answer : Sending 'Test' Messages

A CL program can run SNDPGMMSG to send any message ID from any message file to an external message queue.

SNDPGMMSG MSGID( CPF0907 ) MSGF( QSYS/QCPFMSG ) TOMSGQ( QSYS/QSYSMSG ) ...

Beyond the basic parameters, you might need to specify MSGDTA( &somedata ) and populate the &somedata variable to match the substitution fields the are defined for the message ID. You can often leave MSGDTA() alone and live with the strange messages that result.

Tom