In <caajsdjhqt77sx8xckcezrekvfbmgfo1vouxyd7w7zmn_prh...@mail.gmail.com>, on 12/04/2014 at 08:06 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> said:
>But I've been thinking about the z/OS syslog for some reason >lately. Given what it was originally designed for, review by a >human, it is a decent design. But is it really as helpful as it >could be in today's z/OS environment? Should z/OS have a more >generalized logging facility? It already does. The syslog is intended solely to capture console[1] messages; it is not and never has been a general event log. What is relevant is facilities like CT, GTF, LOGREC and SMF. Now those have issues, but they are a lot closer to general than syslog was ever intended to be. >Is there really a need for the z/OS system log anymore? Yes. >And I will admit that my mind has been >corrupted by using Linux too much lately. Isn't the Linux equivalent to, e.g., SMF, harder to parse? >So, if such a thing is even needed any more, what might it look >like? IMHO a new generalized event log, replacing SMF et all, should timestamp in both global and local time, possibly UTC plus offset. It definitely should support LOGGER. >I know most will moan, Indeed. >but I _like_ structured, textual, information. I hate it. I prefer well structured binary. >And no encoded binary, OK? Not okay. >program name in the RB ITYM CDE or LPDE pointede to by the RB. >JS TCB What if the event is logged from an SRB? How should character data be encoded? EBCDIC would be reasonable if there was only a single EBCDIC code page, but as it is UTF-8 might be better. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN