Message Priority

I’m creating two types of messages (VRL format) in a tps proc (reading database records).  I would like to set the priority on one type of message to something higher than the default.

I am creating the message, assigning the data and setting the priority.  After this, I do a msgdump and can see the priority is correct.  But then, later in the processing of this message I see it has been reset back to the default.  Any clues?

set newMsg [msgcreate -recover]

msgappend $newMsg $msgVRL

msgmetaset $newMsg PRIORITY 6000

msgdump $newMsg

Thanks, Rick