RE: creating a log spool file for backups

["Jonathan Mason" <jonathan.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Here is a snippet of the program, if anyone has any suggestions on how
to 
add in some logging I would be most appreciative.
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We have a message queue, AUKBACKUP, for the backup jobs which we send a
program message to as the backups progress, using:

  TAG0030:    RTVSYSVAL  SYSVAL(QDATE) RTNVAR(&QDATE)                  
              RTVSYSVAL  SYSVAL(QTIME) RTNVAR(&QTIME)                  

              CHGVAR     VAR(&STAMP) VALUE(%SST(&QDATE 1 2) || '/' || +
                           %SST(&QDATE 3 2) || '/' || %SST(&QDATE 5 +  
                           2) || '  ' || %SST(&QTIME 1 2) || ':' || +  
                           %SST(&QTIME 3 2) || ':' || %SST(&QTIME 5 2))

              SNDPGMMSG  MSGID(AUK0102) MSGF(AUKMSGF) MSGDTA(&STAMP) + 
                           TOMSGQ(AUKBACKUP)                           

Then, to see what happened during the backups we just use DSPMSG
AUKBACKUP and get the following:

                                Display Messages

                                                       System:   POLARIS

 Queue . . . . . :   AUKBACKUP               Program . . . . :   *DSPMSG

   Library . . . :     AUKSYS                  Library . . . :

 Severity  . . . :   00                      Delivery  . . . :   *HOLD

 

 Type reply (if required), press Enter.

   AUKSAVLIB  - Offline backup process started at 01/08/05  03:00:05

   AUKSAVLIB  - Library A10DBADEV being saved to *SAVF in AUKSAVFLIB at

     01/08/05  03:00:05

        ...
        ...
   AUKSAVLIB  - Library A11SYSPTF being saved to *SAVF in AUKSAVFLIB at
     01/08/05  03:32:10                                                
   AUKSAVLIB  - Offline backup process completed at 01/08/05  03:32:12
   AUKSAVLIB  - Tape backup process started at 01/08/05  03:32:12  
   AUKSAVLIB  - Tape backup process completed at 01/08/05  05:37:56

Within the job we monitor for errors at each stage of the process and
send a timestamped message as appropriate.  

Jonathan 
www.astradyne-uk.com