Displaying transaction recovery audit messages

You can choose whether information messages are displayed on the administrative console and written to the SystemOut.log file upon transaction service recovery. To do this, set the DISABLE_RECOVERY_AUDIT_LOGGING custom property for the transaction service for the server.

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Note: This topic references one or more of the application server log files. As a recommended alternative, you can configure the server to use the High Performance Extensible Logging (HPEL) log and trace infrastructure instead of using SystemOut.log , SystemErr.log, trace.log, and activity.log files on distributed and IBM® i systems. You can also use HPEL in conjunction with your native z/OS® logging facilities. If you are using HPEL, you can access all of your log and trace information using the LogViewer command-line tool from your server profile bin directory. See the information about using HPEL to troubleshoot applications for more information on using HPEL.

On distributed platforms the default is for information messages to appear both on the administrative console and in the SystemOut.log file during the recovery of transaction services. If you do not want these messages to be displayed you can use the DISABLE_RECOVERY_AUDIT_LOGGING custom property.

On z/OS information messages do not appear by default, either on the administrative console or in the SystemOut.log file during the recovery of transaction services. If you want these messages displayed you can use the DISABLE_RECOVERY_AUDIT_LOGGING custom property.

Note: On z/OS, if you choose to turn on transaction recovery audit messages, other audit messages (such as those relating to servant recovery and XA resource recovery) are also displayed in the console and the SystemOut.log file.

1. In the administrative console, click Servers > Server Types > WebSphere application servers > server_name > [Container Settings] Container Services > Transaction Service > [Additional Properties] Custom Properties.
2. Click New.
3. Enter the values required, depending on the operating system:
   • To suppress the information messages, type DISABLE_RECOVERY_AUDIT_LOGGING in the Name field, and TRUE in the Value field.
   • To display the information messages, type DISABLE_RECOVERY_AUDIT_LOGGING in the Name field, and FALSE in the Value field.
4. Click Apply or OK.
5. Save your changes to the master configuration.
6. Restart the server in recovery mode.