On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]>
wrote:
> In some cases, sysout--or job messages--can become a space problem. I
> mentioned recently a system that we failed to IPL for over a year. At some
> point we hit a spool track group shortage because of the PFA started task.
> It had accumulated so many lines that the entire system was at risk.
> Resolution was simple: stop and restart the PFA task. We didn't need the
> actual output, so we just purged it, but we could have written it to a
> dataset as others have suggested. BTW we have since IPLed that poor
> neglected system. Local page usage is 0%.
>
> In a distant galaxy long ago, we took to running VTAM SUB=MSTR on a small
> system to circumvent the same sort of problem. VTAM messages then went to
> syslog, which got archived every day. Otherwise we would have had to IPL
> the system for no other reason than spool space.
>
I like that idea (SUB=MSTR) for long running ("never ending") started
tasks. For those who complain that "but we need SYSOUT= on a DD because we
want to archive it and you can use SYSOUT= with SUB=MSTR, I have a
"solution". Instead of:
//SOMEDD SYSOUT=* (OR OTHER "ARCHIVE" CLASS)
use:
//SOMEDD DD PATH='/dev/console',
// PATHOPTS=(OWRONLY,OAPPEND),
// RECFM=?,LRECL=? # CHANGE ? TO PROPER VALUES
This will put the output in SYSLOG/OPERLOG.
On a test on my system, that results in a couple of lines (example from
SYS1.MACLIB(READ)) like:
M 4000000 LIH1 17124 11:37:51.26 JOB44466 00000094 BPXF024I (123456) *
%END READ; 166
E 166 00000094
51150000
I suppress all BPXF024I messages from all consoles via CA-OPSMVS.
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