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Enabling and Disabling Messages

Messages output from system programs fall into two categories—log and error messages. Unless specifically turned off via INI options, the message system produces both error and log files.

Error messages contain information about the problems encountered during the execution of the program. The generation of error information cannot be disabled. It is possible to not translate the results into an actual error file; instead, the informational tokens output by the programs are written to a message token file named MSGFILE.DAT.

Log messages are a different matter. This type of message is informational, but not generally tied to the success or failure of the job. In general, these messages are transactional in nature—meaning that they provide information about each transaction as it proceeds through the processing cycle.

You can suppress the log information output by the programs. The LogTransactions option enables or disables the generation of log messages:

< Control >
LogTransactions = Yes

The LogTransactions options defaults to Yes. To disable the logging of messages, set it to No. By disabling this option, you suppress the informational tokens written to the intermediate file and prevent the translation of the log file.

When you set the LogTransactions option to No, system programs do not output the informational tokens, so you cannot generate the log file even if you use the TRANSLAT utility.

For more information on the TRANSLAT utility, see the Utilities Reference.

Logging INI Files and Options Used

By default, the GenTrn, GenData, GenPrint, and GenArc programs log the INI files being used. This tells you which files were used and if they were opened successfully.