Message filtering is the process of removing messages from the job log based on the message logging level set for the job.
Before each new request is received by a request processing program, message filtering occurs.
Filtering does not occur after every CL command is called within a program. Therefore, if a CL program is run interactively or submitted to batch, the filtering runs once after the program ends because the program is not a request processor.
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