An advantage of log streams is that you can set up a log stream so type1 goes to one log stream and type2 goes to another log stream. If type1 produces too much data type2 is not affected. If you log to disk you process the data set to extract/process the type1 and type2 records. If type1 produces too many records so the SMF buffer fills up you can lose type 2 records. Colin
On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 15:03, Ron Burg <ron.bur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Gadi and Jim, > > For us, using DASD-only logstream is the preferred way and I already set > it up on a test system and played with it a little bit. > I set up a RETPD of 10 days. this works fine and I understand that this is > the prefered way and not period of years, I just wanted to check the > possibilty of longer-period on a logsream as this extands the benefits (for > example maybe I can migrate the offload datasets of the Logstream itself to > tapes). > > The other thing that bothers me more is the IFASMFDL which gives me a > return code of 04 for critical errors. > for example, I tried to dump (not archive) data from logstream to a > sequential dataset, but I gave a wrong LS name, this resulted in the > following message: > IFA815I INSTALLATION ERROR FOR LOGSTREAM IFASMF.BLABLA.DFLT > LOGSTREAM IS UNAVAILABLE CAUSED BY RC=08-080B > IFA825I LOG STREAM NAME HAS NOT BEEN DEFINED IN LOGR POLICY. > > and although I can see in the message RC=08-080B, the job itself ends with > RC 4. > How can I catch those type of errors? the only solution I thought on is > running another step of REXX to parse the IFASMFDL output and search for > common error messages and then set a return code accordingly. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
