We do the copy to tape via a write method. I could use the Control-D report management system we have, but that would complicate extracting information from the archives.
Not that I've needed to go far back in a long time. We're small enough that we keep about 45 days on the spool. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Mark Zelden > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 2:27 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: SYSLOG saving > > So more of these posts have made me think. There is no reason that > some of those other shops I mentioned that had more "general" products > (as opposed to some that specifically manage syslog or have components > that do) couldn't have used those products to store syslog. And maybe > more of those shops do today than they did over the past 20 years of > history I was referring to. > > Some reasons they may not be doing so could be: > > 1) Old processes using external writers storing to a GDG worked fine > and were never changed to use those output management products > as they were added to the system. > > 2) KISS. Some of those products take special access, security etc. > People already knew how to access the syslog GDGs. Easy to manage > with GDG limits and / or HSM. > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS > mailto:m...@mzelden.com > Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html > Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
