The file needs to be closed after the write in order to see them. Look at FINIS (not much to it).
Bob Bates Enterprise Hosting Services w. (469)892-6660 c. (214) 907-5071 "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Kern Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:06 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Writing/Closing a file in a pipeline I have an exec with a pipeline that is listening on STARMSG *VMEVENT. Whe= n it receives a LOGON record, it gets processed and additional information = is added to the record. I would like the record to be written to a disk file= and that disk file be available for others to read via READ-ONLY links to= the minidisk. I have DISKSLOW as the file-writing stage now and when I st= op the program (HVMEVENT or PIPMOD STOP), the file with the latest informati= on is there, but when the program is running, I cannot see the file until th= e process has been stopped at least once. Even after it has been stopped an= d restarted, I cannot see the records received after the restart. What is the best practice for writing a logfile from a pipeline such that= the latest record is available for read-only viewing as soon as possible?= /Tom Kern
