I sent your question onto Doug Barnhart here in z/VM. Doug had the following to say:
He could also use DIRM USEROPTN Rcvmsgs INFO_OFF if he only want to remove the informational messages. The RCVMSGS OFF will stop all messages and there maybe some severe message responses which the customer would want to see. Of course unless he indicates that he also does not want to log the messages they would be in the log file but he may not know to look there unless he has the message response on his terminal. Regards, Doug Barnhart Colleen M Brown IBM z/VM and Related Products Development and Service