On Tuesday, 07/05/2011 at 12:42 EDT, Michael Harding/Oakland/IBM@IBMUS wrote: > Beg to differ. > While all messages for all monitored userids are logged to Operations Manager's > log on disk, recent (for various values of recent) console activity is kept in > data spaces, the size of which is specifiable. That's why, for a particularly > active (console-wise) userid, one can only page back so far. Actually, that can > be several days for low-console-activity userids, but may be only an hour or a > few for those which really pump out messages.
We don't really differ on this. I read "stored" as "permanently stored". The messages are permanently[1] stored on disk, but as you say, recent messages are also kept in a data space, one for each monitored user. The amount of data in a user's private data space is controlled by DEFDSPS (default 1M). I believe all of the VIEWxxx commands get their data only from the data spaces, not the log file(s). Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott [1] Subject to your retention policy. Obviously you can't accumulate it on local disk forever!
