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<caajsdjhqt77sx8xckcezrekvfbmgfo1vouxyd7w7zmn_prh...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 12/04/2014
at 08:06 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> said:
>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? Should z/OS have a more
>generalized logging facility?
It already does. The syslog is intended solely to capture console[1]
messages; it is not and never has been a general event log. What is
relevant is facilities like CT, GTF, LOGREC and SMF. Now those have
issues, but they are a lot closer to general than syslog was ever
intended to be.
>Is there really a need for the z/OS system log anymore?
Yes.
>And I will admit that my mind has been
>corrupted by using Linux too much lately.
Isn't the Linux equivalent to, e.g., SMF, harder to parse?
>So, if such a thing is even needed any more, what might it look
>like?
IMHO a new generalized event log, replacing SMF et all, should
timestamp in both global and local time, possibly UTC plus offset. It
definitely should support LOGGER.
>I know most will moan,
Indeed.
>but I _like_ structured, textual, information.
I hate it. I prefer well structured binary.
>And no encoded binary, OK?
Not okay.
>program name in the RB
ITYM CDE or LPDE pointede to by the RB.
>JS TCB
What if the event is logged from an SRB?
How should character data be encoded? EBCDIC would be reasonable if
there was only a single EBCDIC code page, but as it is UTF-8 might be
better.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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