Hi Mark, My guess would be opposite that almost everyone has some output management tool they leverage for SYSLOG archiving but I could be completely wrong. We happen to use $AVRS as well which is very mature and just works for managing job outputs and SYSLOG. The only significant lack is that it does not have a web viewing capability which makes it look pretty antiquated to our users who are not daily TSO/ISPF folks.
Once you bring in something for output management adding SYSLOG into it seems like a natural extension. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO System z Team Leader mailto:[email protected] (office) 301.986.3574 (cell) 301.996.1318 "Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..." -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 10:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SYSLOG saving 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/ ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
