Post-installation notes on the error log
After installation is complete, use the administrative console to change
the log stream name or create new log stream names for servers or servants.
Note:
- A server's error log stream setting overrides the general WebSphere Application
Server for z/OS setting, and a servant setting overrides a server setting.
Thus, you can set up general error logging, but direct error logging for servers
or servants to specific log streams.
- If you create a new log stream name through the administrative console,
you must configure a new log stream on z/OS and, if using the coupling facility,
define a corresponding new coupling facility log stream.
- If you changed an existing log stream, or created a new one, you probably
need to restart WebSphere Application Server for z/OS. When the name of a
log stream is changed through the Administrative Console, in most cases a
restart of WebSphere Application Server for z/OS is required before the change
becomes effective. The only case when the change takes effect automatically
is when the log stream name is changed for a server along with other changes
that cause the server to be restarted.
If you want WebSphere Application Server for z/OS messages that occur during
execution of a z/OS client to be recorded in an error log stream, code the
client_ras_logstreamname WebSphere variable in its environment file, then
initialize the client. For more information about client_ras_logstreamname
and the related variable ras_log_logstreamName, see the WebSphere variables
in the administrative console or the information center.
Our RACF samples BBOWBRAC and BBODBRAC give UPDATE authority to the run-time
control and servant user IDs for the log stream you created (they require
that you supply a log stream name). After installation and customization,
if you want to grant access to the log stream:
- For each server identity that writes to the log stream (or client identity,
if you allow clients to write to the error log stream), assign UPDATE access
to the log stream.
- For each user who browses the error log stream, assign READ access.
Follow the sample RACF commands in BBOWBRAC or BBODBRAC.
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