Jon, you could probably go and invent "some wheel", a program to work with the external writer program, to do what your user wants, plus some more to handle the retention, tape migration, expiration, etc. However, this wheel has already been invented many times over. Please look on the Internet for SYSOUT Archiver software. There are several software vendors out there willing to accept your good money and sell you a software package than can do what your user wants. I bet, there might also be a freebie on the CBT tape that you could use. In our shop, for example, we have been using CA-VIEW from Computer Associates for over 20 years. It archives the SYSLOG, among many other things (production joblogs, reports, etc), to an on-line database. We keep an on-line copy for a week and keep it on archive tape for 3 months. All the archiving, backup tape creation and expiration, all that stuff is handled by the software package. And all we have to do to get a daily SYSLOG spun off to the archive, is to have a an automatic WRITELOG command executed every night at midnight.
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