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[Viswanathchandru]

Dear all,

I have a piece of code which address SDSF and uses ISFLOG to carry the syslog messages. But address command is as per manual

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ADDRESS SDSF "ISFLOG READ TYPE(SYSLOG)"

and I got an error as Machine storage exhausted. I went through the Manual and there is one more option as

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ADDRESS SDSF "ISFLOG ALLOC TYPE(SYSLOG)"

. But I'm not sure how to use this ALLOC. Is this same as the normal alloc command or? If yes I will be using this way.


ALLOC DA('dsname') f(ISFDDNAME) SHR REU
ADDRESS SDSF "ISFLOG ALLOC TYPE(SYSLOG)"

If I do this way will the records be going to ISFDDNAME. Apologize If my thoughts are wrong!


Regards,
Viswa

[Viswanathchandru]

I'm not sure how to use the this

ADDRESS SDSF "ISFLOG ALLOC TYPE(SYSLOG)"

Any help/suggestions would be helpful.

Regards,
Viswa

[enrico-sorichetti]

a quick and dirty googling with sdsf isflog alloc
returned

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente ... upport.pdf

pretty interesting

[Viswanathchandru]

Hi Enrico, Thanks for your time!

Thanks for the link. But I'm not able to understand this part.

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although the syslog supports the allocate function (ISFLOG ALLOC TYPE(SYSLOG), this is not available with operlog

.

But where the output goes? I'm not able to see anything in the o/P. Any example would be helpful.

Regards,
Viswa

[Viswanathchandru]

Hi Enrico,

Or in other words what does this command does?

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ISFLOG ALLOC TYPE(SYSLOG)

. I can understand that this command

ISFLOG READ TYPE(SYSLOG)

reads and puts everything in ISFLINE special variable. But there are chances my machine storage to be exhausted if in case I do a bulk read. Also, I can't find much explanation on ALLOC TYPE(SYSLOG) even i tried google it ends in the same syntax but no more explanation is given. Any help/ the way to invoke would be helpful.

Regards,
viswa