On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 08:47:38 -0500, Donald Likens <[email protected]> wrote:
>In my previous shop we used a product called $AVRS to retain SYSLOG >for an extended period of time. I assume other shops do the same. I >need it in a readable format with as much information as possible. > >If you save SYSLOG at your shop, how do you do it? > On the ones that don't have ISV software that do such things (which only a few do), just a combination of automation to do a "W L" and start an external writer to write the syslog to a daily GDG. The automation looks for the message that the log has been written, starts the writer, and stops it when it goes idle. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
