On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:27:17 -0500, Rick Fochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>--------------------------<unsnip>--------------------------- >Considering that job & TSO session start & end times are also displayed >in JES2 messages and, I believe JES3 messages as well, why bother with >MONITOR at all? Seems like just another source of SYSLOG "noise". At >Clearing, we did away with MONITOR completely and made a significant >difference in SYSLOG volume without affecting our ability to track the >job load. > Because automation products require MONITOR JOBNAME (or SETCON) to verify the start / end (IEF403I/IEF404I) of certain tasks that do not have a startup message or shutdown message. For example, "Product XYZ Initialized". Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.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
