On Wed, 3 May 2006 10:40:02 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Norgauer >> >> >> We're investigiating the MVS LOGGER for LOGREC collection. We >> are a single >> system sysplex. Any thoughts from those in this >> environment. Have you decided to use the new facility and if >> so, what's >> your experience. If not, why not? >> > >Yes, I am using the LOGGER for LOGREC. The main reason is that I don't >need the pre-sized, pre-formatted SYS1.LOGREC (or whatever you might >change the name to). Most of the time very little is logged to LOGREC >around here. So a big LOGREC wastes space. OTOH, a small LOGREC is >almost guaranteed to antagonize Murphy so that you will start getting a >lot of LOGREC records and z/OS will issued nastygram messages about it >being full. > >It works quite well. Very little activity most days, so very little >overhead. > I was going to ask what the benefit was in a single system, but I guess I see your point. Although, in today's DASD environments I don't see sizing SYS1.LOGREC (or whatever name you call it) large enough plus a good fudge factor being a "waste of space" issue. Another benefit (I think this one is better than the reason you stated) is being able to use the free logrec viewer: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/s390/os390/downloads/logrec_viewer.html BTW, I implemented it when I was consulting here around Y2K to simplify logrec collection on all the systems. One dump per plex and I combine them to a single daily file. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
