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Deleting Obsolete Messages

Action messages are highlighted on z/OS consoles and remain on the screen until they are deleted by a program or by operator action. When CA MIC sends an action message to another system, the message retains its action message highlighting and remains on the console screen on that system.

If a program does not delete an action message after a period-of-time, CA MIC deletes the action message to provide space on the screen for more recent messages. When highlighted messages on z/OS consoles are deleted, they become non-highlighted. To see what local action messages CA MIC has transmitted to external systems (and not yet deleted), issue a DISPLAY DOM DETAIL command.

You can set the time period after which CA MIC will delete outstanding action messages with the command SETOPTION DELETEINTERVAL, as shown in the following example:

SETOPTION DELETEINTERVAL=20

In this example, CA MIC deletes any action message after 20 minutes.