Console device messages

During both the initialization and the running of CICS®, various messages appear on your console device. These are mainly for information, but in some cases could require a reply or some action from you.

Console messages might be subject to message formatting if you have defined CICS as an MVS subsystem with console message-handling support. The term console message is used for messages sent to the system console, and does not refer to CSMT messages or the JES joblog.

Suppressing information-only messages

You can use the system initialization parameter MSGLVL to control the generation of messages to console devices. If you code MSGLVL=0, only critical errors or interactive messages are printed.

Sample console messages

Sample console messages issued when CICS starts up are given in System console messages for CICS startup. Sample console messages issued when CICS shuts down are given in Managing CICS shutdown.