You get OPERLOG recording not just 'if' JES2 is down. OPERLOG starts recording very early in an IPL--before JES starts--and continues until V XCF,OFF--after JES has shut down. SYSLOG can eventually write out very early IPL-time messages stored by MVS before JES starts but quits as soon as JES terminates. That alone should make the effort worthwhile.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sean Gleann Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2018 6:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: SYSLOG and LOGR query OK, I understand Allan's point about there being no benefit in using CFs with DASDONLY, but I'd put that consideration to one side since - as I say - I'm working with a MONOPLEX and so I don't expect to be sharing anything. I just want to make use of the facility. I've already put a fair amount of work in to gathering SMF data in a logstream and the result works fine - & is far easier to work with that the old-style MANx files IMHO. With regard to the OPERLOG, that is all the SYSLOGs that are being collected all in one place, right? Well, in my situation, I can't see any difference between the SDSF OPERLOG and the SDSF SYSLOG displays. Which makes sense to me. I've only got one source. Kees is right - I want to be able capitalise on the "...easier to process, search, keep for a longer period..." bits. I want to fully automate the collection of my SYSLOG in daily files. I've currently got a horrible kludgy set-up of REXX execs and ICEMAN stuff and manual interventions to do this. Having seen how much easier things were with the SMF data, I moved on to handling the SYSLOG in a similar manner. But I appear to have fallen in to a hole... Sean On 19 July 2018 at 14:22, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 8:20 AM Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > He says he has a monoplex. > > The advantage is, that you het syslog data in the operlog logstream, > > i.s.o. Jes2 Sysout files. That can be easier to process, search, > > keep > for a > > longer period etc. > > > > I haven't done it, but would it also mean that you'd get the "syslog" > data recorded even if JES2 is down. I.e. when you are shutting down to > IPL, you have a more complete record. > > > > > > > Kees. > > > > -- > There is no such thing as the Cloud. It is just somebody else’s computer. > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
