If the SYSLOG file is to be maintained as a simple file, the SYSLOG file can be made known to openUTM in two ways:
Before the start of the application, you assign the link name SYSLOG to the file (SET-FILE-LINK command). When the application starts, openUTM opens this file. It remains open for the entire application run for all tasks of the application.
You can also create a file called filebase.SLOG before the start. The file must have the same catalog ID (CATID) as the KDCFILE filebase.KDCA (see openUTM manual “Generating Applications”, statement MAX...,CATID and KDCFILE). openUTM uses the file with the name filebase.SLOG as the SYSLOG file for each subsequent start, provided no file or file generation with the link name SYSLOG exists when the application starts. If a file or file generation with the link name SYSLOG does exist, openUTM always logs the SYSLOG UTM messages in this file.
Following the end of the application run, you should save the contents of the filebase.SLOG file. With the next application start, the contents of this file are overwritten by openUTM.
CAUTION!
If you want to maintain the SYSLOG as a simple file, then you many not activate size monitoring for the SYSLOG. If you switch on size monitoring in the UTM generation with MAX..,SYSLOG-SIZE=size (size > 0), then openUTM aborts the start of the application with the start error code 58.