Concurrent multi-lingual use in data processing systems.

摘要

A distributed, interactive data processing system is provided with the ability to allow concurrent multi-lingual use by a plurality of users having different national language preferences. A message model data collection (18) is established by storing message models via a message identifier primary key that is common for all usage and a secondary key that is the national language index. A central message service (17) is used to compose messages from message models retrieved from said message model data collection (18) using the primary and secondary keys in response to a call from an application (10), application control (12) or supervisor (13) program. The composed messages are communicated to users in their national language preference. It is also possible to display data obtained from the data collection in place of the original data provided in the informational or error message of application programs such as COBOL and FORTRAN.