The message-flooding prevention table lists messages that are candidates for flooding suppression. The purpose is to prevent VTAM® from issuing duplicate messages in rapid succession, which could flood the operator console without providing additional information.
For each candidate message, the table contains the criteria that must be met before VTAM suppresses duplicate messages. The suppression criteria include the amount of time between the original and subsequent messages, as well as an indication of which variable text fields are to be compared and whether messages are suppressed for the hardcopy log. If the message is reissued within the specified interval and the specified variable text fields contain the same information, VTAM suppresses the message.
See Message-flooding prevention table for information on coding the macroinstructions that define a message-flooding prevention table.