MNOTE instruction

The MNOTE instruction generates your own error messages or displays intermediate values of variable symbols computed during conditional assembly.

The MNOTE instruction can be used inside macro definitions or in open code, and its operation code can be created by substitution. The MNOTE instruction causes the generation of a message that is given a statement number in the printed listing.

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagram>>-+-----------------+--MNOTE--+-----------+-message-----------><
   '-sequence_symbol-'         +-severity,-+
                               +-*,--------+
                               '-,---------'

sequence_symbol
is a sequence symbol.
severity
is a severity code. The severity operand may be any absolute expression allowed in the operand field of a SETA instruction. The term must have a value in the range 0 through 255. The severity code is used to determine the return code issued by the assembler when it returns control to the operating system. The severity may also change the value of the system variable symbols &SYSM_HSEV and &SYSM_SEV (see &SYSM_HSEV System Variable Symbol and &SYSM_SEV System Variable Symbol).
message
is the message text. It may be any combination of characters enclosed in single quotation marks. The rules that apply to this character string are as follows:

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