Find a string in JESMSGLOG of every job in SPOOL

cvijay784 · New User Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 54 Location: Colombo

I would like 2 find a string in JESMSGLOG of every job in SPOOL. If u have a REXX EXEC, please post it.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:11 pm

if You want it please provide the proper FEE

if You had searched the net You would have found
www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247419.html

Aaru · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:25 pm

Vijay,

cvijay784 · New User Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 54 Location: Colombo

wt is FEE ?

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:13 pm

see:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee

Pedro · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:32 pm

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:39 pm

expat · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:27 pm

Hey Enrico. Maybe we should develop a REXX scheduler and market it on the forum

cvijay784 · New User Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 54 Location: Colombo

Hi All,

The exact objective is 'Find a string in jesmsglg & return a line which contains that string'

That's all.

expat · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:33 pm

Now I am intrigued - as to what purpose this actually serves.

cvijay784 · New User Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 54 Location: Colombo

This is a requirement.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:55 pm

the most &DEROGATORY_ADJECTIVE reply you could have given,
You just show lack of respect for people trying to help You,
if you want help you must make people eager to help

that answer lowered our willingness/eagerness to 0

cvijay784 · New User Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 54 Location: Colombo

Can anyone tell me how to delete a post from this site ?

expat · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:44 pm

Look, we are here to try and help you. And to do that we need to understand

a) What you want to do
b) In some cases the reason why you want to do it - because we could probably give you some alternative / better ideas.

The reason that we ask is that on average each 3 seniors on this site will have about 100 years of experience between them, and there are a lot of very experienced and knowledgable seniors here !! And thankfully quite a few young ones showing real promise as well.

So the choice is yours, if you want to get help then answer what we want to know and if you do not appear to get what you want immediately or do not want to answer the questions that we pose then just discontinue your participation in this thread rather than throwing your teddy out of the pram.

cvijay784 · New User Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 54 Location: Colombo

In a day, there are so many jobs run. There are some jobs which require more space for the datasets they use. Inorder to identify those, I need a REXX EXEC instead of doing it manually as go thru each job using '?' & then 's' which is a time consuming long process.

Robert Sample · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:27 pm

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:31 pm

I do not know who gave You the idea that in the jesmsglg You would find the allocation details

anyway the only way to find out is to setup a properly defined/planned
storage accounting application.

run daily a dcollect job to scan all/selected dasd volumes to get the info required
and run a properly written program/application to find out the growth rate

the approach suggested will not work

familiarize Yourself with the ISMF reporting , ISMF option 1
to see what You can get for point in time reporting

after that plan with the storage support an application for the growth rate

expat · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:38 pm

So what are we looking for here, ways to prevent Sx37 abends.

DCOLLECT data can be extremely useful for trending dataset growth along with SMF records as suggested by Robert.

Both SMF & DCOLLECT will also provide great info for VSAM files too.

I would suggest starting with DCOLLECT - all documentation in the IDCAMS book, as these are far easier to use

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:42 pm

and if You are eager to test Your rexx skills
CBTTAPE which hosts lots of free/public domain software for the MVS/zOS world

has a very good starting point on how to process dcollect data
at file 206 at Use [URL] BBCode for External Links
the coding is not my preferred ( I prefer mixed case ) but still is a very good start

I know, I know

I have often flamed on attachments
but I do not see any other way right now

here is the cbt206 file unxmitted on my pc ( with a rexx script )

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:51 am

Hello Vijay,

I suspect the goal is to identify jobs that require a large amount of spool space rather than dataset space (i.e. not looking for x37's but lines of print).

Is this true or have i misunderstood?

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:02 am

Hi Dick,
anyhow the info would not be in the JESMSGLG dataset,
I just checked the JES2 initialization reference
and I saw that the JESMSGLG could even be suppressed on a jobclass class basis
still after 20 posts the real need is not clear,
the only definite assertion made by the TS was ...

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:23 am

Hi Enrico,

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:36 am

cvijay784 · New User Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 54 Location: Colombo

Can you tell me whether a macro written in VB can interact with SDSF & achieve the requirement ?

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:12 am

if we knew You requirement we could, but ..,
until now You have given us nothing to work on
what in &HEAVEN do You expect to find in the JESMSGLG ???