Implicit Messages Capturing

SA z/OS captures certain messages implicitly without any user definitions in the following cases:

• A threshold (infrequent, frequent, or critical) is reached for a command, an APL or a minor resource.
• A command fails with a return code larger than 0 and return code checking is turned on.
• The APL status changes.
• WTORs are retained for reply processing.
• CICS transactions are recovered for short-on-storage conditions.
• IMS transaction or program abnormally end.
• DB2 recovery takes place.

In all cases, SA z/OS determines the severity based on the actual condition detected. If you do not want SA z/OS to capture any messages implicitly, you can create definitions within CAPMSGS pseudo message entry in the policy and assign the severity IGNORE to those messages. If you want a different severity from the one SA z/OS uses implicitly, you can also use CAPMSGS pseudo message. See Pseudo message ID CAPMSGS.