File Select and Formatting Print utility (DFSERA10)

You use this utility to examine message segments or database change activity in detail. This utility prints the contents of log records contained in the OLDS, SLDS, or the CQS log stream. Each log record is presented as one or more segments of 32 bytes. The printed output gives each segment in both character and hexadecimal formats.

You can specify selection criteria for a subset of the records rather than printing all records. You can also specify a starting record number and the number of records to process. You can use an exit routine to customize the selection and formatting of the log records.

Although you can use the File Select and Formatting Print Program to copy entire input logs, you can more conveniently use the Log Archive utility (DFSUARC0). You use one or more SLDSs as input and specify a user data set as output. Also, you need to specify DBRC=NO in the EXEC statement to prevent DBRC from making entries in the RECON data set about your backup log. Making backup copies of the system log data sets can be useful to obtain an alternative input source for statistics and other monitoring activities occurring in parallel with production use of the system log.