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Monitor a File with Data Encoded in a non-ASCII Character Set

When you define a Text File Reading and Monitoring job, you can specify the character encoding of the text file to be monitored. For example, you can monitor a text file that contains data encoded in ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1 or ISO-LATIN-1).

To monitor a file with data encoded in a non-ASCII character set, add the ENCODING statement in the job definition.

Example: Monitor a Text File Encoded in ISO-8859-1

The following job monitors a text file that contains data encoded in ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1 or ISO-LATIN-1). The job completes successfully if the specified string is found.

AGENT MONAGT
TEXTFILE /export/home/logs/transactions.log
TEXTSTRING 'ERROR MESSAGE'
SEARCHRANGE LINE FROM(1) TO(50)
ENCODING ISO-8859-1