INTEGRATED CATALOG FORWARD RECOVERY UTILITY R1M0

CRURRSV SYSLOG       12/17/04 (04.351)  10:39:44

The message log from Record Selection and Validation begins with these lines, identifying first the name, release and modification level numbers of the product writing the reports. The second line identifies the program by name and the DD name being used. The execution date is given in both Gregorian and Julian formats followed by the time at which program execution began.

If there is an error in start up processing, the error will be logged (but no reports are produced). Thus the program uses the log data set to communicate errors in input parameters or input data sets.

Events are logged sequentially as they are encountered. If all SMF data sets for one system are presented together, then all messages for that system's data will appear together.

The principal use of the log is to determine whether any SMF data has been omitted or lost. Therefore, gaps in SMF recording from a single system will be logged as will "data lost" SMF records. To assist you in checking out gaps, the SMF SWITCH, HALT EOD, and IPL records are also logged.

The record that is being processed when one of these events is encountered will also be dumped. The dump will contain the relative addresses on the left side, the storage locations from which the record was dumped, the dumped data in hexadecimal and, on the right side, an EBCDIC interpretation of the dumped data.