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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 28, 2022

zLDA user log from JES Spool does not work when batch jobs are offloaded from JES to an archival product like "SAR".

Large MF (Enterprise) shops like CITI immediately offload batch for archival -- without this support the "user logs" from Spool to Splunk is not working for us. Our developers will not add VSAM ESDS files to batch jobs -- they will move forward and "roll their own" and not use zLDA.practical for our
Idea priority High
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    Kekahu Aluli
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    Feb 23, 2023

    After investigation, it seems like we will not be able to support this feature.

  • Guest
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    Jul 5, 2022

    We need more information about Job offload. After jobs offload, will they be still in JESS spool either? Where SAR stores the jobs after offload? Which form SAR stores the jobs in? Can you give us a documentaion about SAR?

  • Guest
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    Apr 28, 2022

    I concur, large enterprise shops definitely use this tool to archive sysout from JES to a repository. This would be a valuable addition to the product.