I have used the @BRLOG rexx exec, freely supplied by IBM, to perform post IPL analysis on the head of the active syslog. Redbook http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247419.pdf points to ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG247419 to download SG277419.zip and @brlog.rex is in the ch06 directory. The Redbook chapter 6 says you can direct the output to a dataset or to a path name where you can head/tail the SYSLOG data.
Paul Gillis > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Friday, 14 November 2014 1:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Tail of MVS SYSLOG > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 08:39:13 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > > >Kacynski, Walt wrote: > > > >>Does anyone know of a way to tail the JES based MVS SYSLOG to an > external system and/or unix based syslog? I want to send this data to an > external system for analysis. > > ... > >PRINT ODSN <dataset> ... > > ... > >Then use ocopy to put it to an unix folder. > > > I use the SDSF API (Rexx) to IEBGENER directly from spool to a UNIX file. No > temp data set needed. But only from job output; untested for SYSLOG. Does > SDSF provide "PRINT OUTDD ddname"? > > >To Lizette: The word 'tail' is an Unix term where you send the last x lines > >to > somewhere else. I believe there is also something like 'head' for send the > first > x lines to somewhere else. Generally useful with the pipe command. > > > The OP may be thinking of "tail -f fllename", where the "-f" option means to > periodically (every few seconds) to extract ("stat()") the size of the file > and > send any characters not previously sent (in the fashion of SDSF "DOWN MAX > &nn"). The OP may have wanted such dynamic updating. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
