Changes the severity of warning or error messages. The default is that compiler diagnostic warning messages and standards checking messages have a severity of warning, or /SEVERITY=(WARNINGS=WARNING). ERROR Specifies that all warning messages are to be issued with ERROR severity. STDERROR Specifies that if /STANDARD is in effect and diagnostics indicating non-standard features are issued, the diagnostics are issued with ERROR severity (the default is that these are informational). All other warning messages are issued with WARNING severity. WARNINGS Specifies that all warning messages are to be issued with WARNING severity.