There isn't much you can do about the ones that come from jobs that are started under the master scheduler, but normal day to day stuff (everything else that runs under control of JES) is controlled by the MONITOR option of your consoles, the one that controls those "millions" of messages you probably don't want is MONITOR(STATUS). You probably have something like MONITOR(JOBNAMES-T,SESS-T,STATUS):
From the Init and tuning guide: "STATUS specifies that the system is to display the names and volume serial numbers of data sets having dispositions of KEEP, CATLG, or UNCATLG whenever these data sets are freed." Whether or not you "need" them is something only you can decide. I personally don't think they are useful, because if you want detail information you can get it from the SMF records (which I do), and they actually make the SYSLOG even harder to go through than it needs to be. Again, the discussion of whether you want them or not is totally up to your preference, not us, it all depends on what you want. I maintain a LOT of sites, and only a very few want that data displayed on the console and SYSLOG. Since more (and better) information is available from SMF, I feel the messages are unnecessary, but it's your call. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
