Re: Remove DDM informational messages

Thanks Vern. That would work if we were going to identify and modify every program that uses a message subfile, but we're trying to avoid that.  But we might have to.

Another thing I tried, without success, was copying QCPFMSG file to CPFMSG, removing the messages I don't want, then overriding QCPFMSG to CPFMSG. But I'd forgotten that if it can't find the message in the override file, it looks for them in the original file.  I don't really want to remove them from QSYS/QCPFMSG.

On 9/1/2020 3:33 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

Hi Peter

Here's an article with a technique that might fit your situation -

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_71/rbam6/rcvmsgpgm.htm

The idea is to get the message key of a message before take some action - like opening the DDM file - then get message key of a message after the action - then loop through everything in between - you can be selective about what you delete.

As I say, it MIGHT fit what you're doing - but it's very powerful - lots of messages are sent to you from other processes - this catches them all.

HTH
Vern

On 9/1/2020 5:10 PM, Peter Dow wrote:

We have a bunch of programs using message subfiles populated from the program message queue.

These programs, without modification, are now using DDM files. When the first DDM file is opened, the program message queue receives

CPI9160: Database connection started over TCP/IP.
CPI9200: DDM object MyDDMfile in MyLib uses remote object MyRmtLib/MyRmtFile.

The CPI9200 is repeated for every DDM file opened.

The problem is, all these informational messages get dumped into the message subfile, making it difficult for the user to see the important messages.

Is there a way to globally prevent these messages from being sent, or to remove them before the message subfile is loaded without having to modify all the programs?

- File open exits occur before the file is opened, which would be before the messages are sent.
- Global message monitors are only for non-program message queues.
- CHGDDMTCPA does not have any parameters related to messages.

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