John McKown wrote: >This is just my mind wandering around loose again.
Catch it! Catch it! ;-) ( There is an old Afrikaans song 'Catch it!' which says how difficult is it to catch chicken/pig/sheep/etc. ;-D ) >But I've been thinking about the z/OS syslog for some reason lately. Given >what it was originally designed for, review by a human, it is a decent design. >But is it really as helpful as it could be in today's z/OS environment? Not really because all and every usefull and useless messages are thrown in one h*lluva pool. You need a magician to do your searches... >Is there really a need for the z/OS system log anymore? Yes. That is as long there is not a good alternative. >And I will admit that my mind has been corrupted by using Linux too much >lately. <grin/> Please refresh my mind about how is Linux version of log(s) working? >So, if such a thing is even needed any more, what might it look like? Should >it go to SPOOL? Should it be more like the OPERLOG and go to a LOGGER >destination? Or should it go "somewhere else"? Control-D (yeah, I know you want freebies, but...) can do that. It slurps up any pre-defined/selected output from JES2 and store it in its own archives for easy retrieval. >So I would prefer that the output be in something like XML or JSON structure, >not "column" based. And no encoded binary, OK? ... etc ... Hmmmm. Good idea! >And, lastly, I do realize that the above would be very costly. Not necessarily >to just implement into z/OS, but to actually change z/OS code to start using >it. And that may be the real killer. "Backward compatibility"... is the murderer for that killing. >I.e. if I invest a million dollars in something, I expect to get back 2 >million in 6 months or less. Why? I want it all for myself. I'll spare you so about 3 cents or so... ;-D >Well, I guess that I've bored you enough with this bit of weirdness. Like many >of my ideas, they sound good to me until others point out that they are just >silly/stupid/unnecessary. No. As usual you come with good ideas. I believe something good will come out if this and your past good ideas. Keep it up! Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
