Use the showlog command to view Common Base Events

 

Overview

The showlog command converts the service log from binary format into plain text. Use the following showlog commands to produce output in Common Base Event XML format:

• On a Windows platform: showlog -format=CBE-XML-1.0.1 filename

• On a UNIX platform: showlog -format=CBE-XML-1.0.1 filename

• On a z/OS platform:  showlog -start startDateTime -format=CBE-XML-1.0.1 logStreamName

where:

filename

Is the service log file name.

startDateTime

Specifies the start date and time, in yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSZ format. Milliseconds and time zone are optional.

logStreamName

Is the name of the configured error log stream.

For examples of showlog scripts, see Showlog Script.

 

See also

Showlog Script

 

See Also

Viewing the service log

 

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