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Guidelines for Using the OPSLOG Browse Profile Panel

The options you choose on the OPSLOG Browse Profile panel determine which automation events OPSLOG presents. For example:

• If you enter a job name in the Jobname field with an I (inclusion), only events with that job name appear on the OPSLOG Browse display. If you enter an X (exclusion) before the job name, the opposite occurs; all other events appear in the OPSLOG Browse display, with the exception of those events that have the entered job name.
• All exclusion entries are processed first. Only then are any inclusion entries applied. For example, if the job name JOB771 is entered with an I, and a MSGID of $HASP373 is entered with an X, the OPSLOG will display all events with the job name of JOB771 except the $HASP373 message.
• For some individual options (such as Ruleset, Color, and User), you may specify multiple values. These multiple values are linked with a logical or; thus, if you specify two values for Ruleset, the events that appear in OPSLOG Browse are those that were initiated by either rule set.
• All profile options are linked to the other options by a logical and. Thus, if you specify a value for the Jobname field and a value for the Msgid field, only those events that fit both criteria appear on the OPSLOG Browse display. However, if you specify two Jobname values (such as VTAM and TEST) and one Msgid value (such as IEF250I), those events that fit either set of criteria (a job name of VTAM and a message ID of IEF250I, or a job name of TEST and a message ID of IEF250I) appear on the OPSLOG Browse display.
• If you specify values that do not match any OPSLOG entries (for example, a job name that never existed in the system), it can affect system performance, because the entire OPSLOG data area must be searched. If this happens, CA OPS/MVS must reference many pages of virtual storage, which causes many real storage pages to be assigned.

More information:

Overview of Options for the OPSLOG Browse Profile Panel