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Change Message Severity

You may decide to change the message severity and suffix for the following reasons:

• Automate a particular message. For example OPS/REXX SAY statements from AOF rules (OPS1000).
• Reduce product initialization time by changing the suffix of messages issued to consoles during product initialization so those messages are sent to the OPSLOG. Once initialization is complete you may want to change the message severity back to its original value.
• Avoid flooding consoles with frequently issued messages by changing their severity to H or T.

Each message description contains an indicator (Modifiable: YES/NO) that tells you whether the severity of the message is eligible to be changed.

For more information, see the Command and Function Reference.

To change the severity level using the OPSPARM command processor

1. Issue SAY statements in AOF rules.
2. Change the suffix of messages issued as a result of SAY statements in AOF rules as follows:

   ParmRC = OPSPRM("SET","OPS1000","J")
   

The severity level is changed and you can now automate the resulting messages.

To change the severity level using the OPSPRM OPS/REXX function

1. Change message suffixes in the startup REXX EXEC OPSxPAnn by customizing the following sample code.

    /*********************************************************************
     *                                                                   *
     *   Change message severity levels                                  *
     *                                                                   *
     *********************************************************************/
    T = OPSPRM_Set("OPS1000","J")    /* Allow SAY output to be automated*/
    T = OPSPRM_Set("OPS0049","T")    /* Avoid flooding consoles         */
    T = OPSPRM_Set("OPS3900","T")    /* Reduce initialization time      */
    T = OPSPRM_Set("OPS4320","T")    /* Reduce initialization time      */
   

2. Include it in the supplied startup REXX EXEC.

The severity level is changed and automated.