Why and when to perform this task
The browser takes two parameters:
Parameter | Description |
log stream name | The name of the log stream. See the job messages for the name of the log stream. |
format option | 80 The default. The log stream record will be formatted on a lrecl length of 80 characters. Additional lines will be wrapped. NOFORMAT Turns off formatting. The error log message appears as one log message string in the browse file. |
Steps for this task
'BBO.SBBOEXEC(BBORBLOG)' 'BBO.BOSSXXXX format option'
Note: In this example, BBORBLOG resides in BBO.SBBOEXEC.
Results
The browser creates a browse data set named "userid.stream_name ", which contains the contents of the log stream. When the browser is executed, it:Important: Each time BBORBLOG is invoked a static file is created which overwrites the existing file. In order to refresh the file, it is necessary to re-issue BBORBLOG
Example
There are three valid ways (three separate commands to use) to invoke the browser. We will illustrate each of these using the following example:
Example: If the BBORBLOG member was in a data set named BBO.SBBOEXEC, then you would issue one of the following depending on your chosen format option:
ex 'BBO.SBBOEXEC(BBORBLOG)' 'BBO.BOSSXXXX' ex 'BBO.SBBOEXEC(BBORBLOG)' 'BBO.BOSSXXXX 80' ex 'BBO.SBBOEXEC(BBORBLOG)' 'BBO.BOSSXXXX NOFORMAT'
Tip:: It is easier to invoke the browser if you add the target library (in our example, BBO.SBBOEXEC) to the SYSEXEC concatenation of the user logon procedure during the WebSphere Application Server for z/OS installation. If you concatenate the library during installation, you do not have to specify the library containing the browser REXX exec- you only need to specify BBORBLOG.