I would like to see you change MPFLST, so if you suppress messages (i.e. IEC*) that highlighted IEC messages would still display on the console.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of W. Kevin Kelley Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Potential z/OS MPF behavior change -- comments please Good comments from you all. Thanks! The specific problem we are attempting to solve is interactions between MONITOR message generation and MPF. With the changes we made during the Console Restructure, MONITOR messages can be produced without a console requesting them. You can request that the messages not be queued to a console for display purposes (but will be queued to EMCS consoles for automation purposes) and you can request that the messages not be logged. All of this was done to allow customers whose automation require the messages to receive the messages but not have the messages -- optionally -- go anywhere else. The problem is that if a customer requests that the messages not be logged but puts an entry for the message in MPF, MPF undoes the no logging. The simple solution is to remove the message entry from MPF, but perhaps the customer wanted to drive an MPF exit, and then would be unable to do so. There is a more general question and that is how should we be handling messages that are being generated solely for automation and being solely consumed by automation? The MONITOR messages are but the tip of the iceberg in this regard. We have had requests for ways of specifying on commands that the command response message is to be returned to the console (typically an EMCS automation console) but is not to be logged. >From the comments I've seen so far, whatever we do must be optional. W. Kevin Kelley -- IBM POK Lab -- z/OS Core Technical Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ________________________________ NOTE: This electronic message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this message in error, any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. Unless expressly stated in this e-mail, nothing in this message should be construed as a digital or electronic signature or writing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
