The hardcopy medium

You can specify whether the hardcopy medium is the system log (SYSLOG) or the operations log (OPERLOG). If you use SYSLOG as the hardcopy medium, start a writer that includes the system log message class (A for MVS™, unless otherwise specified in your installation). The SYSLOG spool file is managed by JES and can be viewed using the spool display and search facility (SDSF). The external writer will write it to an SMF-managed file.