OPERLOG

OPERLOG or Operator LOG consists of messages that are merged from Sysplex systems.

It can be set to be the default log accessed with the LOG command, or if not can be accessed with the LOG O command.

The OPERLOG displays a similar list of attributes to the SYSLOG panel at the top of the screen, including the number of outstanding WTORs.

Filtering the OPERLOG

The OPERLOG panel is different in that it can perform several filters on the data SDSF#FILTER command within it, however there are no column names displayed within it.

This log can be filtered with those fields

• SYSNAME
  • Records for the specific system in the Sysplex
• DATE
  • Self explanatory
• TIME
  • also self-explanatory
• DATETIME
  • A combination of the tow previous ones
• JOBNAME
  • Display log records belonging to specific jobs by their name
• JOBID
  • Display log records belonging to specific jobs by their ID
• CONSOLE
  • Specifying this filter might be useful when needing to identify logs from a particular user ID
• MSGID
  • If you need to figure out how many times a specific error message has occurred you can use this field to specify the message ID
• MSGTEXT
  • This will let you filter by the content of the message in the log

When ran under ISPF, you can use the FILTER ? Command in this log as well To configure the filters used. When SDSF is not ran under ISPF and this command is used, it will simply display the currently active filters

NEXT and PREVIOUS commands

When browsing the OPERLOG, you can use next and previous commands to scroll a certain length of time within the log, specifying the period with Days, Hours Minutes and Seconds.

For example, in order to scroll the log for 3 minutes forward you can issue
NEXT 3 M

Line numbering

Note that the OPERLOG does not support absolute line numbering, meaning that it is not possible to use the LOCATE and PRINT commands, as they need line numbers.

SET SCREEN command

The SET SCREEN command will open a pop-up box that will let you configure some of the screen characteristics, within it you can enable the setting that will display the original colouring of the messages in the log, which might make it easier to see which ones are more important

You can also define your own message display characters ro highlighting.

Log data for both SYSLOG and OPERLOG can be accessed programmatically as well, with the use of REXX, Java and Batch SDSF.