Msg PG 508 - Payroll has not been run successfully for all personnel nos.

When incrementing my payroll control record I am getting a hard error, message PG 508 - Payroll has not been run successfully for all personnel numbers. In my development and QA systems the message is a warning message and not a hard error and thus I can return through the message and complete the exiting of my payroll control record. In my production environment the message is a hard error thus I am not able to complete the exit of my payroll control record. Is there a setting that determines whether message PG 508 is a hard error or a warning?