II02668: SYSLOG HELD AFTER WRITELOG. MSGIEF176I WTR DDD WAITING FOR WORK. EXTERNAL WRITER (XWTR).

APAR status

• Closed as canceled.

Error description

• IN RELEASE HJE2330 A USER MODIFICATION IS GENERALLY REQUIRED IN
  ORDER TO HOLD THE DATASETS PRODUCED BY THE SYSLOG STARTED TASK.
  BECAUSE SYSLOG HAS NO JOB CARD, STCMCLASS IS NOT USED.  ALSO
  BECAUSE SYSLOG HAS NO JOB CARD, ITS MESSAGE CLASS IS HARD-CODED
  AS "A".  IN ORDER TO HOLD THE DATASETS PRODUCED BY SYSLOG
  THE SYSOUT CLASS MUST BE "A" AND SYSOUT CLASS "A" (THE MESSAGE
  CLASS) MUST BE DEFINED AS HELD.  JES2 CUSTOMERS DO NOT
  GENERALLY DEFINE CLASS "A" AS A HELD CLASS, HENCE THE USER
  MODIFICATION TO CHANGE THE HARD CODED MESSAGE CLASS TO SOMETHING
  OTHER THAN "A".  WITHOUT THE MODIFICATION, ALTHOUGH USERS MAY
  THINK THE SYSLOG DATASETS ARE HELD BECAUSE THE STCMCLASS AND
  SYSOUT CLASS ARE HELD, THE SYSLOG DATASETS ARE PROBABLY NOT
  HELD.  $L'SYSLOG',ALL AND $L'SYSLOG',H WILL PROVIDE MORE INSIGHT
  INTO WHETHER THE DATASETS ARE HELD OR NOT.  IF AN EXTERNAL
  WRITER IS USED TO PROCESS THE SYSLOG DATASETS THE DATASETS MUST
  BE READY DATASETS (THAT IS, THE DATASETS MUST BE GATHERED INTO
  JOB OUTPUT ELEMENST (JOES)).  IN HJE2330 IT MAY APPEAR THAT THE
  EXTERNAL WRITER IS PROCESSING HELD DATASETS - BUT THAT IS
  NOT THE CASE.  IN HJE2215 THERE IS A NEW INITIALIZATION
  PARAMETER - THE MSGHOLD= PARM ON THE OUTCLASS INIT STATEMENT.
  THIS PARAMETER INDICATES WHETHER OR NOT THE MESSAGE CLASS WILL
  BE CONSIDERED WHEN DETERMINING WHETHER OR NOT A DATASET IS
  HELD.  THIS PARAMETER DEFAULTS TO NO, MEANING THAT IF HOLD=YES
  IS SPECIFIED ON THE OUTCLASS INIT STATEMENT THE SYSOUT WILL BE
  HELD REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE MESSAGE CLASS IS.  IF THE USER HAS
  BASICALLY "CARRIED OVER HIS INIT PARMS" HE WILL PROBABLY HAVE
  THE CLASS THAT THE SYSLOG DATASETS GO TO DEFINED AS A HELD CLASS
  - LIKE HE DID IN HJE2330.  THE ONLY DIFFERENCE HERE IS THAT
  IN HJE2330, ALTHOUGH THE DATASETS WERE DEFINED AS HELD THEY WERE
  NOT, WHEREAS IN HJE1367 OR HJE2215 THE DATASETS ARE DEFINED AS
  HELD AND THEY ARE ACTUALLY HELD.  SINCE THE EXTERNAL WRITER
  CANNOT PROCESS HELD DATASETS IT WILL ISSUE MSGIEF176I INDICATING
   IT IS WAITING FOR WORK. THIS MAY APPEAR TO BE A PROBLEM (BUT IS
  NOT - IT IS A RESULT OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HELD AND NON-HELD
   DATASETS FROM HJE2330 TO HJE1367/HJE2215).  THE USER
  SHOULD ISSUE THE $O COMMAND TO RELEASE SYSLOG'S HELD DATASETS.
  REFERENCE THE JES2 COMMANDS MANUAL AND THE JES2 INITIALIZATION
  AND TUNING GUIDE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE $L AND $O COMMANDS AND
  THE MSGHOLD= PARAMETER OF THE OUTCLASS INITIALIZATION STATEMENT.
  JES2 LEVEL2 CANNOT PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THE USER MODIFICATION
  REFERENCED EARLIER.  THE MARKETING BRANCH SHOULD BE CONTACTED
  FOR ASSISTANCE IF YOU WISH TO MODIFY JES2 CODE.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• APAR IS BEING CLOSED FOR INFORMATION ONLY.  JPM.STJ2
  

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

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