Description

The MESSAGE_LANGUAGE option specifies the language in which messages are written.

Usage

Method	Syntax	IBM i	HP NonStop	UNIX	Windows	z/OS
Command Line, Short Form	-L language
Command Line, Long Form	-lang language
Environment Variable	UPPSLANG=language
Configuration File Keyword	language language

Value

language is the language in which messages are written.

The first three characters of the language are used as a three-character suffix to form the name of a Universal Message Catalog (UMC) file. UMC files are in the nls product directory.

Default is ENGLISH.

Command Usage

The MESSAGE_LANGUAGE option is a MESSAGE option.

MESSAGE options are associated with program execution, not commands. They specify different characteristics of upps messages.