Automic Workload Automation

How to download Agent log from a AS400 system

  • 1.  How to download Agent log from a AS400 system

    Posted Sep 10, 2016 11:19 AM
    AS400 has its own object hierarchy. Files are mambers, stored in physical files that are created inside a library. For example a AS400 agent creates, feeds and handle his log files as member (UCEX_LOG0*) in the File TMP, itself created in a library for example UC4V11.

    To sum up libraries, can be considered as directories, physical files as sub-directories, and members as conventional files.


    If you want to retrieve the log files simply open a ftp connection to the AS400 in a DOS-Box.
    Browse to the installation library of the AS400 agent

    cd UC4V11

    if you run a dir you wil get

    ls

    25 List started.
    .......
    DFTOWN       1290240 08/31/16 02:00:21 *FILE      TMP
    DFTOWN                                 *MEM       TMP.UCEX_LOG00
    DFTOWN                                 *MEM       TMP.UCEX_LOG01
    DFTOWN                                 *MEM       TMP.UCEX_LOG02
    DFTOWN                                 *MEM       TMP.UCEX_LOG03
    DFTOWN                                 *MEM       TMP.UCEX_LOG04
    DFTOWN                                 *MEM       TMP.UCEX_LOG05
    DFTOWN                                 *MEM       TMP.UCEX_LOG06
    50 List completed.

    Actually the AS400 naming rule of a member is <FILENAME>.<MamaberName>.

    Retrieve all members

    mput TMP.U*

    Confirm each download with 'y'

    These objects will be locally transferred on your local workstation and are now ready to be analyzed!!