INFOMSGFILTER

Derivation: INFOrmational MeSsaGe FILTER

INFOMSGFILTER allows you to activate a filter that eliminates unwanted informational messages. During normal operations, informational messages are sometimes written to the Language Environment message file. If these messages are routed to your terminal, you need to clear them often. If the messages are saved to a data set, they take up disk space and could make it difficult to browse the output for a specific message.

Informational messages are not limited to Language Environment (CEE) messages. They can also be written, using the CEEMSG interface, by other IBM® program products or user-written applications.

The default value for non-CICS applications is INFOMSGFILTER(OFF,,,,).

The default value for CICS® applications is INFOMSGFILTER(OFF,,,,).

The default value for AMODE 64 applications is INFOMSGFILTER(OFF,,,,).

Syntax

                     .-OFF-.                         
>>-INFOMsgfilter--(--+-----+--,--+------------+--,-------------->
                     '-ON--'     '-Foreground-'      

>--+------------+--,--+------+--)------------------------------><
   '-Background-'     '-CICS-'      

OFF

Turns off message filtering for all environments.

ON

Turns on the message filtering for the specified environments.

Foreground

Selecting this keyword causes message filtering to be turned on for the TSO and z/OS UNIX environments.

Background

Selecting this keyword causes message filtering to be turned on for the MVS™ Batch environment.

CICS

Selecting this keyword causes message filtering to be turned on in the CICS environment. This option is ignored for AMODE 64 applications.