Okay, I was keying off the OP's mention of VIEWCON. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support
mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 323-2070 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!) The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> wrote on 07/05/2011 10:15:29 AM: > From: Alan Altmark/Endicott/IBM@IBMUS > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Date: 07/05/2011 10:17 AM > Subject: Re: Where console message is stored using Operation Manager > Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> > > 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!
