Charles,

I will have to try MCSFLAG= HRDCPY ..

On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 11:18 AM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> iirc (it was decades ago), WTL drops the exact text into the log.  None of
> the ~80 bytes of timestamp, flags, job ID, etc. is prefixed.  So, WTO is
> better in that you do get all that.
>
> If WTL suits the purpose though, I don't see much harm in using it.
> However, if you have any log post-processing, you should check to see if
> it's going to gag on your non-standard messages.
>
> sas
>
> On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 10:27 AM Jeremy Nicoll <
> [email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 9 Nov 2019, at 15:14, Charles Mills wrote:
> > > Possibly because AT LEAST since z/OS 1.10 (and I think long before
> that)
> > IBM
> > > has been saying
> > >
> > > Note: IBM recommends you use the WTO macro with the MCSFLAG=HRDCPY
> > parameter
> > > instead of WTL, because WTO supplies more data than WTL.
> >
> > What does that mean?  Surely in both cases the data is what the
> programmer
> > elects to send?
> >
> > I'd have thought there'd be advantages in not sending log data through
> > message processing.
> >
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