Entire Operations logs all important system events. You can view logs specific to an owner, network or job and specify selection criteria for the log report to be produced.
You can also use the monitoring function to observe all activities currently running in your Entire Operations environment.
This document covers the following topics:
Defining Job-Specific Log Information in the section Job Maintenance
Entire Operations logs all important system events. Additionally, more detailed user-defined logs are available at the job level. These must be specified for the job in the job definition.
To display log information
For a single node item:
From the object workspace, select the object whose log you want to see and choose (if applicable) from the context menu.
Or:
For a selected owner and network:
From the object workspace, select the General node and choose .
A Log Display Selection window similar to the example below opens:
Specify the required selection criteria. The input fields are explained in Fields: Log Display Selection.
Choose .
The logging information is shown in a Browse Log window similar to the example below:
For explanations of the columns, see Column Headings: Browse Log. The functions of the context menu are described in Available Functions: Browse Log.
The Log Display Selection window provides the following input fields:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Date/Time from | The date and time (or a start date or time) for which the log entries are selected. Default is the current date and 00:00:00 for time in the format HH:MM:SS. |
| Date/Time to | The end date/time for the date/time specified in the Date/Time from fields. Default is the current date and time in the format HH:MM:SS. |
| Max. Lines | The maximum number of lines in the log display.
|
| Owner | Enter name of the owner whose log is to be displayed. Leave blank to select log of all owners. |
| Network | Enter name of the network whose log is to be displayed. Leave blank to select log of all networks. |
| Run | Enter a run number or leave blank to select all numbers. Can be used only if owner and network have been selected. Default: 1-9999 (all). |
| Job | Enter name of the job whose log is to be displayed. Leave blank to select log of all jobs. |
| User | Enter the user ID for which the log is to be displayed or leave blank to select all user IDs. To display the log for the Monitor, enter the name of the Monitor task. |
| Automatically go to end | Scrolls down to the end of the log report to see the most recent log entries. This setting can also be specified as a default value in the user profile: see the section User Maintenance in the Administration documentation. |
The Browse Log window contains the following columns:
| Column | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| User ID | User ID as defined in host TP environment. | ||
| Owner | Owner name in Entire Operations. | ||
| Job | Entire Operations job name. | ||
| Network | Name of the job network. | ||
| Run | Job run number. | ||
| Date | Date of log entry. | ||
| Time | Time of log entry. | ||
| Message | Message text.
Depending on the default display option set (see
List
Display Options in the
Administration documentation), the message text is
prefixed with a message code (if one exists), for example: |
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The context menu of the Browse Log window provides the following functions:
| Function | Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Copy | Ctrl+C | Copies the currently selected text. In case some text from the selection is not received from a server, a warning is shown and the Copy function is not performed. |
| Select All | Ctrl+A | Selects all text. |
| Reverse Order | Ctrl+R | Shows text in the reverse order. |
| Find | Ctrl+F | Finds the text fragment. |
| Find next | F3 | Finds the next text fragment. |
| Go To | Ctrl+G | Moves the cursor to the specified line number. |
| Ctrl+P | Prints log data. | |
| Refresh | F5 | Refreshes the log with
"time to"=actual time |
| Refresh with new start time | F4 | Refreshes the log with
"time from"=time from the selected row "time to"=actual time |
| Extended Log | Ctrl+E | Log items with extended log information (active
JCL changes, JCL, SYSOUT) are marked with an asterisk (*) in the User
ID column.
See also Extended Log. |
An asterisk (*) in the User ID column of any job means that a more specialized extended log is available according to the specifications made in the original job definition.
To display the extended log
In the User ID column of the Browse
Log window, place the cursor in an item that begins with an asterisk
(*) and choose Extended Log from the context
menu, or press Ctrl+E.
The extended log appears.
The following types of extended log are available:
JCL log
If (in the Job Maintenance facility) you specified JCL logging, the
JCL of the job run selected from the System Log screen is displayed in Editor
format, browse mode. The JCL log source is dependent upon the operating system,
in which the job has run.
SYSOUT log
If you specified the job SYSOUT to be logged after job termination,
the SYSOUT of the job run selected from the System Log screen is displayed in
Editor format, browse mode;
Operating system messages
If you specified operating system messages to be logged according to
the criteria defined in the Job Maintenance facility, the messages of the job
run selected from the System Log screen are displayed in Editor format, browse
mode.
In later versions of NOP, more types of extended log may be added.
Active JCL modifications
If you specified to log the changes made to an active/pregenerated
JCL using the corresponding option described in Defaults:
System/Log Files
(Administration documentation), the changes are visible in
detail in the extended logging screen.
Activity monitoring is used to permanently display Entire Operations events that currently occur in your Entire Operations environment.
The following applies to the monitoring feature:
The activity monitoring facility receives its data from the Entire Operations log file.
The activity monitoring facility only displays the most important messages. Error messages and other very important messages appear highlighted.
The default setting displays events starting from the current time.
This section covers the following topics:
To start monitoring and display activities
In the object workspace, select the metanode.
Open the context menu and choose .
An Activity Log window similar to the example below opens:
All current activities within Entire Operations are logged and displayed in this window. Error messages are highlighted in red.
The columns contained on the screen are described in Columns: Activity Log.
You can use the Auto Refresh and Refresh options to update the display and modify the update interval. See also Refreshing Object Lists.
You can use the option to automatically scroll to the latest activity.
The columns in the Activity Log window are described in the following table:
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Owner | Owner of the active network. |
| Network | Name of the active network. |
| Job | Name of the active job. |
| Run | Run number as assigned to the active network by Entire Operations. |
| Job ID | Job identifier as assigned by the operating system or by the job entry subsystem. |
| Time | Last action or check time for the job. |
| Message | Last message issued for the job by
Entire Operations.
For a list of possible messages, see Messages in Active Job Display in the Messages and Codes documentation. |