So more of these posts have made me think. There is no reason that some of those other shops I mentioned that had more "general" products (as opposed to some that specifically manage syslog or have components that do) couldn't have used those products to store syslog. And maybe more of those shops do today than they did over the past 20 years of history I was referring to.
Some reasons they may not be doing so could be: 1) Old processes using external writers storing to a GDG worked fine and were never changed to use those output management products as they were added to the system. 2) KISS. Some of those products take special access, security etc. People already knew how to access the syslog GDGs. Easy to manage with GDG limits and / or HSM. 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
