Mark, The concern was about the clutter that the additional message lines would cause. Also, the same explanation lines are repeated in each instance of the error message, so there would be a lot of redundancy.
>If the new MPFLSTxx option has it disabled by default or enables the verbose >messages, what >purpose does the OCE_ABEND_DESCRIP=YES serve in DEVSUPxx? The DEVSUPxx external has been deprecated and replaced by the MPFLSTxx .MSGOPTION statement. >What if you want the original behavior? I ask, because I like it. So you'd like the option of being able to have verbose message lines optionally go places other than JOBLOG? 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: INFO IBM-MAIN

