RE: Trying to get output from System.out.

Mark,

Heres the code I use to write System.out to a log file. Its setup to tick
over each day. Also, is only does this if its running on the 400, so when im
testing on my PC it still goes to the console


        public static void log() throws Exception {
        
                String os = System.getProperty("os.name");
                if ("OS/400".equals(os))
                {
        
                        // Get the current date
                        if (formatter == null)
                        {
                                formatter = new
SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
                        }
                        fdate = formatter.format(new Date());
        
                        // redirect System.out to a file
                        if (!fdate.equals(lastDate) || lastDate == null)
                        {
                                lastDate = fdate;
                                try {
                                        fos.close();
                                        bos.close();
                                        ps.close();
                                } catch (Exception e) {}
                                try {
                                        fos = new
FileOutputStream("/home/logs/mylog" + lastDate + ".log", true);
                                } catch (Exception e) {
                                                tempString = "Error occurred
opening log file";
                                        System.out.println(tempString);
                                        e.printStackTrace();
                                        throw e;
                                }
                                bos = new BufferedOutputStream(fos, 1024);
                                ps = new PrintStream(bos, true);
                        }
                        System.setOut(ps);
                        System.setErr(ps);
                }
        }

cheers
Colin.W
 
http://as400blog.blogspot.com


-----Original Message-----
From: MWalter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:MWalter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 08 June 2005 13:24
To: java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Trying to get output from System.out.


Hello all,

I'm trying to get output from System.out. I have a class that uses the
getMessage() method of the IOException class to print any exception data to
System.out. I have the SystemDefault.properties set to put the stderr.txt
and stdout.txt into my Home Directory. I'm setting the
QIBM_USE_DESCRIPTOR_STDIO environment variable to 'Y'. In my home directory,
the stderr.txt and stdout.txt files were created, but they contain trash.
Like there's a translation error or something. How can I get readable text
into these files?

I am calling this class from RPG. I'm on V5R2.

Thanks,

Mark

Mark D. Walter
Senior Programmer/Analyst
CCX, Inc.
mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.ccxinc.com