John McKown, In any of my Share requirements, I always ask for a parm addition. Let the current behavior be as it is, and for those that want the new function, supply a new parm.
I understand completely about not wanting more "entries" in syslog or other places. Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 6:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Question on WRITE statements in ACS and Automation If people want these WRITE messages going to SYSLOG and put in a SHARE request for that functionality, __PLEASE__ ask that it be optional. I get enough crap messages on my z/OS SYSLOG as it is. To the point that I write them to a data set which I then send to my Linux desktop simply so that I can process them and strip out the messages which are useless just so that I can browse something reasonable. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote: > Lizette Koehler wrote: > > >When you create ACS code you can put WRITE statements into the > >process > for clarification. Is it possible to capture those WRITEs in an > automation product, OPS/MVS, AFOPER, Tivoli, and action the message? > > AFAIK, those WRITES are NOT written to SYSLOG. I have now tested it. > :-( > > (Of course, I could be wrong as usual. ;-D ) > > I remember those ancient days when we were trying to learn users to > use SMS properly. Those writes (if on SYSLOG) could really make our > work less painfull. > > >If a user is creating a dataset and using an invalid DSN, I could put > >a > write statement in the code that says > >WRITE MYACS001I Invalid DSN for the storage group requested. > >Then if it went to SYSLOG I could capture it and send an email to the > storage team for review. > > Good. Excellent way to punish them. ;-D > > >So, it would be nice, in my opinion, to be able to create an event > notification that an automation tool could capture and then perform > some action (i.e. email the storage team) > > It should be more than nice. I think you should go ahead and get a > SHARE requirement. > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > Phrase of the week: "Remember now, the first 5 days after a weekend > are always hard!" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
