On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:50:30 +0000, Lennie Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
>Does anyone have any advice on tools to scan SYSLOG and/or OPERLOG for >multiple messages? >I am looking for something that understands continuation messages, and the >structure of multiline messages. If I remember correctly, setting your screen width > 160, the line continuation problem goes away when viewing the log. 128 byte text plus flags, jobname, job/stc id and ... should be less than 160 thus avoiding the line wrap. As for solutions using SYSLOG or SDSF LOG, remember that there can be consistency problems with multi-line messages in multi-tasking address spaces (e.g. automation). For instance, you can't distinguish the task from which messages are being issued at the same time. Personally, when I received SYSLOG from customers, I would use ISPF VIEW, exclude all lines and "FIND ALL" for the messages I was interested. You can then easily show lines before and after. Delete uninteresting sections. Flip the results. Set labels. You also have an automation product that can collect messages as they produced. OPERLOG has programmatic interface very similar to the SSI that gives you detailed data about the message. I've never used OPERLOG but in theory you should be able to directly match MLWTO messages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
