After installation is complete, use the administrative
console to change the log stream name or create new log stream names
for servers or servants.
Notes:
- 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 runtime control and servant user IDs for the log
stream you created (they require that you supply a log stream name).
If you want to grant access to the log stream after installation and
configuration, perform the following actions:
- 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.