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Saving the Logger Data

CA Vtape logs its activity in a dataspace allocated at startup. This dataspace is included in dumps automatically taken by the product or when you issue the SVTn DUMP console command.

Note: Dataspaces are not by default included in standard console dumps. For this reason, always use the SVTn DUMP console command when capturing diagnostic information about CA Vtape.

CA Vtape treats this dataspace like a wrap-around file. When it is full, the first record is over-written.

This log can be offloaded to an IBM Log Stream and saved like SMF data for reporting and trouble shooting at a later time. Define an IBM Log Stream and save this data.

The process related to the Logger dataspace is referred to as the Internal Logger. The process to offload this data to an IBM Log Stream is referred to as the External Logger.