You can select the type of messages to be written to the master console with the MSGCON installation option:

>>-+----------------------+------------------------------------><
   '-MSGCON=-+-ALL------+-'   
             +-CRITICAL-+     
             '-NONE-----'     

ALL

Specifies that all messages except option-in-effect messages (ICE127I through ICE133I, ICE235I and ICE236I) and diagnostic messages (ICE800I through ICE999I) are written to the master console.

CRITICAL

Specifies that only critical messages are written to the master console.

NONE

Specifies that messages are not written to the master console.

Console message choices are independent of the message data set choices. Messages ICE097I and ICE158A are written only to the master console. Inclusion of a SORTDIAG DD statement has no effect on console messages.

Because of the addition of the job name and the step name, some DFSORT messages can be truncated from the right when they are written to the master console.

Messages returned by an EFS program cannot be written to the master console.