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Log File Information

Types of Log Information

Log files can store the following types of information:

• User ──Informational messages issued by WRITE TO LOG and CONTINUE commands, and by WRITE TRANSACTION commands that perform a mapout to the dialog's output file. The message is specified in the MESSAGE parameter of the command.
• Debug──Debugging information issued by SNAP commands and by the CA ADS Batch trace facility.
• Edit error──Error messages issued when an input record is written to the suspense file. The runtime system writes one record consisting of the associated suspense file record number and the first 32 bytes of the input record, followed by one record for each applicable error message. In addition, if the input record was written to the suspense file by a WRITE TRANSACTION command, any message specified in the MESSAGE parameter of the command is also written to the log file as an edit error message.
• Operator──Operator informational messages issued by WRITE TO OPERATOR commands. All messages sent to the operator are also sent to the log.
• Abend──Abnormal termination messages issued by the ABORT command and by the runtime system when an application abends. Abend messages include snap dumps.

  Note: If the abend occurs during a mapping operation, the snap dump goes instead to the z/OS data set associated with the ddname IDMSSNAP file associated with the linkname IDMSSNAP or, in VSE, to SYSLST, as described under JCL.

• Statistics──Statistics records written by the runtime system when dialog statistics are being collected for the application.