Thanks to those who suggested checking for pop-ups etc. None of that worked.
After seeing the post about an open PMR where IBM acknowledged problems with JAVA 8 I uninstalled it and went back to JAVA7_21. Now my integrated console and operating system messages are available again. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN