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object-name

Qualifiers

Examples

/CURRENT

/DOWN

/UP

CDD/Plus CDO CLEAR MESSAGES — VMS CDD+_4.1A

 Removes messages that have been received at a dictionary object.

 CLEAR MESSAGES──┬─┬──────>─────────┬─┬───┬─> object-name ──┬──>
                 │ ├──> typebox (/)
C

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R

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N

T
───┤ │ └─────── , <──────┘ │ ├──> typebox (/)
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O

W

N
──────┤ │ │ └──> typebox (/)
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────────┘ │ └─────────<──────────┘

Additional information available:

object-nameQualifiersExamples

object-name

 The name of a dictionary object that has received a message.  You can
 use wildcard characters in the object-name.

Qualifiers

Additional information available:

/CURRENT/DOWN/UP

/CURRENT (default)

 Clears only the messages at the object specified by object-name.

/DOWN

 Clears messages at all objects that are descendants of the object
 identified by object-name.

/UP

 Clears messages sent by the object specified by object-name to its
 ancestors.  Messages on the ancestors that were not sent by the object
 specified by object-name are not cleared.

Examples

 The following command clears messages at the CDD$DATABASE definition
 MY_RDB_DB:

 CDO> CLEAR MESSAGES MY_RDB_DB
 CDO>

 The following command clears messages at all of the objects in your
 default directory:

 CDO> CLEAR MESSAGES *
 CDO>

 If field definition ZIP_CODE has no messages and you attempt to clear
 messages at ZIP_CODE, the CDO> prompt is returned to you:

 CDO> CLEAR MESSAGES ZIP_CODE
 CDO>

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