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[John Reagan]

On Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 8:59:33 AM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Environment:
> 
> $ tcpip sh ver
> 
>    HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.7 - ECO 5
>    on a COMPAQ AlphaServer DS20E 666 MHz running OpenVMS V8.4-2L2
> 
> $ cobol /ver
> VSI COBOL V3.1-0007 on OpenVMS Alpha V8.4-2L2
> 
> When compiling with the command line:
> 
> $ cobol <my .COB file> /list /warn=inform
> 
> I see the message in the titel in the LIS file and there
> are also the 46 %COBOL-I-xxx messages (different types).
> 
> Is there a way to see the "suppressed" messages? Or are they
> simply not of any value anyway?
> 
> Jan-Erik.

See if /WARNING=ALL changes the behavior.  The default is /WARNING=OTHER and saying /WARNING=INFORM *should* not have removed OTHER (at least that is what the help file says), but that isn't normal DCL behavior where specifying an option would discard any default.