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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Z NetView
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 16, 2018

Canzlog Print - Need additional Option for easy use

For CANZLOG is a new PRINT option via APAR available. That was great !
But after my first try to use it on the simplest way ... I failed.

In our company the CANZLOG was not used only by automation admins which have know how about filters and the many options that can be used by NCCF CANZLOG. The normal people use CANZLOG without options, search with ALL the messages he want and Cut & Paste them into notepad or others.
I try to show them the new PRINT option and fail. They can not use it on a easy way like Cut&Paste. Why not ?

1. The CANZLOG PRINT Help Panel ( EUYCALOG ) is not described in great detail. As example FILTERS ? What is this ? The description from NCCF CANZLOG looks better, but here are too much options for non automation people.

2. The most important function for this people was it, to write the seen output into a USER-Dataset like Cut & Paste to notepad.
The only usuable option for the CANZLOG PRINT OUTPUT-DSN here was the customization in CNMSTYLE as default. That was good, but not good enough !
Some people cannot read this data due restrictions, other did not find his output there, because some other has overwritten this in time. Not good !

What we need, is the additional parm OUTPUTDS='xxx' for the CANZLOG PRINT option. That was the easiest way to make the people happy.
The NCCF CANZLOG have this option already, but with the many other options the normal people was
overcharged.

Idea priority Medium