Re: IEE042I in OPERLOG - why no century?

[Peter Fatzinger]

Tim,
  Yes, it's working as designed.  The IEE042I message is built in the System 
Log Initialization module and bypasses much of normal WTO processing.  It 
builds the year based on the HCFORMAT setting in CONSOLxx to try to be 
consistent.  I expect it looks like the other messages when looking at SYSLOG.  
Specifying CENTURY should give you a consistent format in both logs.
Peter Fatzinger
z/OS Core Technologies Development and Service

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IEE042I in OPERLOG - why no century?

[Tim Hare]

First let me state we are copying the hardcopy log to disk in two ways:  

1.  External writer proc, SLOGWTR,  which writes to a GDG
2. OPLOGCPY job which copies from system Logger OPERLOG to disk 

I haven't convinced others to rely on OPERLOG yet :-(. 

In any case, I have a small issue.  Wonder if it is "working as designed",   or 
a bug (but it's been going on for years so probably not)?

We copy OPERLOG to disk, there is one message that does not have a 4-digit 
year. - IEE042I (see below)
===
2018096 00:00:00.10 STC01917 0290  W L  
2018096 00:00:00.10 STC01917 0090  AFTRAP   *** AFOPER SLOGWTR SLOGWTRX: S S
2018096 00:00:00.10 STC01917 0290  S SLOGWTR.L  
2018096 00:00:00.10  0281  IEF196I IEF237I JES2 ALLOCATED TO SYSLOG4
2018096 00:00:00.11  0281  IEF196I IEF285I   +MASTER+.SYSLOG.STC0190
2018096 00:00:00.10 STC3 0090  IEF453I PPSJOB01 - JOB FAILED - JCL ERROR
2018096 00:00:00.11  0281  IEE043I A SYSTEM LOG DATA SET HAS BEEN QU
18096 00:00:00.11 SYSLOG     IEE042I SYSTEM LOG DATA SET INITIALIZED
2018096 00:00:00.11 STC3 0090  $HASP395 PPSJOB01 ENDED  
===

HCFORMAT is not coded in PARMLIB so defaults to the 2-digit year for SYSLOG.   
Nothing in the manual that I could find about HCFORMAT for OPERLOG (I always 
assumed OPERLOG was 4-digits always, until noticing this anomaly). 

Has anyone else run into this? Is HCFORMAT(CENTURY) the only solution?

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