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The UK P45 App Engine writes a message to the log if it thinks it can't find Tax details for a given employee. Based on what the message was telling us (set 17135,541 since you ask) I disagreed that no tax details existed, however I wanted to check the code to see how the App Engine makes the decision to issue the message. Normally I'd run a find in PeopleCode and SQL looking for the message set and number* - but this produced nothing.

Baffled, I asked on of the techy guys - he pointed out that App Engine can have a step that writes to the log - and so it proved. Unfortunately, neither I nor he knows a simple way to search for such a message as it's neither PeopleCode nor SQL at least not as the search understands it.

* Top tip - when searching PeopleCode for an error/warning message, insert a space after the message set and comma - so 17135,541 becomes 171, 541 - for reasons best known to itself PeopleCode adds the space.

Update - The client has a PeopleSoft/Oracle Service Request logged for this fault.

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My acquaintance with things tech is that dangerous sort where I know enough to be a hazard. Looking for a message number in PeopleCode, I was puzzled to find that it didn't appear to be referenced anywhere - I was forgetting of course that the message catalogue can be referenced on
a page to call instructional text (mainly in Self Service Pages) - as it was in this case.