The ops words were "I want to send this data to an external system for analysis." So I saw no need for head/tail capability on z/OS. Might be roundabout but works fine for me & may work fine for the op. Just another way to get the data out of JES2 to where it can be used.
Paul Gillis > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Saturday, 15 November 2014 1:07 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Tail of MVS SYSLOG > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 23:05:25 +1100, Paul Gillis <pgil...@pc-link.com.au> > wrote: > > >I have used the @BRLOG rexx exec, freely supplied by IBM, to perform > >post IPL analysis on the head of the active syslog. Redbook > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247419.pdf points to > ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG247419 to download SG277419.zip > and @brlog.rex is in the ch06 directory. The Redbook chapter 6 says you can > direct the output to a dataset or to a path name where you can head/tail the > SYSLOG data. > > > Where I see: > > If the path name parameter is present, @BRLOG copies all SYSLOG data sets > to > a temporary MVS data set and copies using OCOPY to the path that is > specified. ... > > Kinda roundabout, isn't it? Why not write directly to the path specified? > Not indicative of a high degree of craftsmanship. > > ...Finally, using the TSO command, OEDIT allows the user to view it. > Copying > the path name does use a Carriage Return/Linefeed (CR/LF) to separate the > file records. > > <CR><LF>!? Ugh! Not the z/OS Unix System Services convention. > > I see no mention of "tail" in Chapter 6, much less of "tail -f" (presuming > that > such dynamic updating was among the OP's objectives). I doubt that "tail -f" > would be effective. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Paul Gilmartin > >> Sent: Friday, 14 November 2014 1:56 AM > >> > >> On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 08:39:13 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >> > >> >To Lizette: The word 'tail' is an Unix term where you send the last > >> >x lines to > >> somewhere else. I believe there is also something like 'head' for > >> send the first x lines to somewhere else. Generally useful with the pipe > command. > >> > > >> The OP may be thinking of "tail -f fllename", where the "-f" option > >> means to periodically (every few seconds) to extract ("stat()") the > >> size of the file and send any characters not previously sent (in the > >> fashion of SDSF "DOWN MAX &nn"). The OP may have wanted such > dynamic updating. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
