I don't think that you can do this with FTP. You can use Spool Dataset Browse to process SYSLOG datasets (I believe this support is available for SYSLOG datasets created on R11+). There is even some special VSAM GET RPL processing available to support logical SYSLOG datasets and time/record positioning. See "JES Application Programming" for details.
If you implemented this as Unix shell command that writes records to stdout, then you could run it remotely from an ssh client to download records. I'm not sure if the SDSF REXX API has features for doing SYSLOG criteria-based record I/O, but if so then that might be an option. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > FTP can access the JES queues -- job output and submission anyway. > > SYSLOG is a JES facility. > > Ergo ... ? > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Phil Smith > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 12:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Access z/OS SYSLOG via FTP? > > We can submit jobs via FTP, and retrieve the job output. > > For the purposes of automating some testing, we also need to be able to > access the SYSLOG. Is there any way to do that via FTP? I suppose we could > use syslogd, but that's a whole 'nother thing to add, maintain, and access; > we're hoping there's something simpler. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
