I did not notice anyone asking what to me is a basic question: why would you want to suppress?
These could be important messages. IEF196I is just a prefix. The message itself contains the text (and message ID) of the "real" message. You ought to look into these messages. As documented, the action for this message is to look into the information for the message that IEF196I contains. If you are getting "millions" then the question is what are those messages telling you? Perhaps there is something misconfigured in your system and the messages are "complaining". Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN