Viewing and working with XML audit reports

On z/OS®, you can process the document using the IBM® XML Toolkit for z/OS. The XML can be used in the following ways:

Viewed using the ISPF edit function
Viewed using an XML-capable web browser
Converted to HTML using a style sheet
Processed by an XML parser and processor

On other systems, such as personal computers and workstations, the audit report can be viewed using an XML-capable web browser. Many browsers available today have the ability to correctly parse and render XML documents. Therefore, once the audit report is on that system, you can read it as easily as any other web document. Simply bring up a listing of the files and single- or double-click the file to open it in the browser window. The platform documentation can help you discover which applications are able to parse and display XML files.

One thing to note is that to use the XML file on a personal computer, you must first alter the EBCDIC encoding line at the top of the file:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ebcdic-cp-us' ?>

So that it looks like the following:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO8859-1' ?>