Forcing zosConnect transactions log to be sent to log stream

Products

• SYSVIEW Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

Looking for configuration options that allows to force records to be written to zosConnect transaction log.

Resolution

By default, z/OS Connect writes an SMF 123 record for every ~20 requests that are processed. Each SMF record contains details about all the processed requests. When viewing these records on the ZCNRLOG command in SYSVIEW, each request is split on its own line. 

How often SMF records are written by z/OS Connect is configurable. As described in the IBM doc, under section 'Reducing the delay in writing SMF V2 records.

Another option is to use the ZCNSET PROVIDER FLUSH command in SYSVIEW, which will request an SMF 123 record to be written with whatever requests have been processed but not written out yet.