During normal operations, there are times when long lists of informational messages are written to the Language Environment® MSGFILE. These messages are not limited to Language Environment (CEE) messages. Informational messages may also be written, using the CEEMSG interface, by other IBM® program products or user-written applications. If these messages are routed to the user's terminal, then the user must constantly clear them. If the messages are saved to a data set, they take up disk space and may interfere with a user browsing the output looking for a specific message. INFOMSGFILTER allows the user to activate a filter that eliminates the unwanted and unnecessary informational messages. All informational messages, whether generated by Language Environment or any other source, are suppressed when the INFOMSGFILTER=(ON) option is in effect.

Non-CICS default

INFOMSGFILTER=((OFF,,,,),OVR)

CICS® default

INFOMSGFILTER=((OFF,,,,),OVR)

Amode 64 default

INFOMSGFILTER=((OFF,,,,),OVR)

Syntax

                           .-OFF-.                         
>>-INFOMSGFILTER--=--(--(--+-ON--+--,--+------------+--,-------->
                                       '-FOREGROUND-'      

                                         .-OVR----.      
>--+------------+--,--+------+--,--)--,--+-NONOVR-+--)---------><
   '-BACKGROUND-'     '-CICS-'                           

OFF

Turns off the filtering of messages for all environments.

ON

Turns on the filtering of messages for the specified environments.

FOREGROUND

Selecting this keyword turns message filtering on for the following environments:

• TSO
• CMS
• z/OS UNIX

BACKGROUND

Selecting this keyword turns message filtering on for the following environments:

• MVS™ Batch
• CMS Batch

CICS

Selecting this keyword turns message filtering on in the CICS environment. This is ignored for AMODE 64 applications.

Note: These three keywords are not positional; you can specify them in any order. The fourth comma is required when coding this option at the region level, even though there is no keyword to fill its position. This position is reserved by IBM for future use.

OVR

Specifies that the option can be overridden.

NONOVR

Specifies that the option cannot be overridden.