IBM SY44-5902-05 manual Product Activity Log PAL, Service Action Log SAL

Product Activity Log (PAL)

The PAL is the general use system log containing entries for informational events, thresholding incidents, dumps, and errors that need to trigger service actions. The entries are full of basic and detailed information on the event in a somewhat raw form.

This option is selected from the Start a Service Tool menu. It allows you to display or print data that has been logged for various components of the system. It also provides data summaries, allows data to be sorted, and allows you to work with removable media statistics and display reference code descriptions. It was formerly called the Error Log Utility.

Note: Some PAL entries regarding secondary logical partitions are written to the PAL with respect to the primary partition.

Use the Product Activity Log option to:

vAnalyze the log data of a specific subsystem. Some subsystem selections are:

–All logs

–Processor

–Magnetic media

–Local workstation

–Communications (SDLC, BSC, X.25, token ring, remote workstation, IDLC, if supported by the system).

–Power

–Licensed program

–Licensed Internal Code

vAnalyze all log data associated with the same log ID. The user must know the log ID to use this function.

vDisplay summary information.

vDisplay information about a specific entry or a group of entries.

vChange Product Activity Log sizes.

vDisplay information about volume statistics for removable media.

vReview session or lifetime counters for a specific volume or removable media type.

vDelete or print volume statistics lifetime counters.

You can send output to a:

vPrinter (if available)

vConsole display

In the limited paging environment, you cannot change PAL area sizes, work with tape or diskette statistics, or examine session or lifetime counters for a specific volume or removable media type.

The Service Action Log (SAL)

The Service Action Log (SAL) is a subset of the PAL. To access the SAL, select the following options, in order, from a DST or SST menu:

vStart a service tool

vHardware service manager

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