MPF has the following behavior: If SUP(YES) or SUP(ALL) is coded on an MPFLSTxx message definition or on a .NO_ENTRY statement, any matching message will always be written to hardcopy (unless overridden by an MPF exit) even if the message -- when issued -- specified no hardcopy (i.e. MPF always forces a matching message that is to be suppressed from display to be hardcopied).
MPF was created to reduce console message rates for the 3084 machine (our first 4-way MP -- all of about 27 MIPs). Back then, every message was considered sacrosanct, so a design decision was made to guarantee that a message could always be found in the SYSLOG even if it was suppressed from display. That design decision no longer makes sense. Messages are no longer sacrosanct; we've allowed you to delete them completely for quite awhile (even if we didn't make it easy for you to do so). As part of the Console Restructure, we enhanced the handling of MONITOR messages so that automation programs could receive the messages without the messages having to be written to the SYSLOG or OPERLOG. Unfortunately, it appears that if you create an entry in MPFLSTxx for a MONITOR message (say IEF403I) and MONITOR processing has requested that the message be issued no hardcopy, MPF will override the no hardcopy and force the message to be hardcopied. To make a long story short: we are proposing to change MPF processing so that it no longer forces matching messages to hardcopy. If a message is issued requesting that the message be hardcopied (the default), MPF will honor it; if the message is issued requesting that the message not be hardcopied, MPF will no longer override the request (forcing the message to be hardcopied). If we decide to make this change, it will be done on a release boundary with appropriate Interface Change Notifications (ICNs) to the venders in advance of the release being available. Make sense? I'd like to hear your comments... W. Kevin Kelley -- IBM Pok Lab -- z/OS Core Technical Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
