[Info-vax] Informationals 301 (255 suppressed)

[John Reagan]

On Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 11:07:49 AM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2017-07-20 kl. 15:30, skrev 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.
> > 
> 
> Thanks, but no, same "255 suppressed" output with /warn=all.

Hmmm...  I'll look some more.  Can you send me a small reproducer to my vmssoftware dot com address?