Outputs informational messages. Format /LOG
1 – Description
The /LOG qualifier outputs these informational messages to the current SYS$OUTPUT device: o For each file processed, the name of the file and the number of records selected and rejected from that file o If you use the /SORT qualifier, the total number of records merged in the sort (this is the total number of records selected from all the files that were processed) o If you process more than one file, the total number of files that were processed, and the total number of records selected and rejected
2 – Example
$ ACCOUNTING MYFILE1.DAT,MYFILE2.DAT /TYPE=PRINT /SORT=USER /OUTPUT=OUTFILE %ACC-I-INPUT, SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]MYFILE1.DAT;7, 297 selected, 16460 rejected %ACC-I-INPUT, SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]MYFILE2.DAT;13,302 selected, 16388 rejected %ACC-I-MERGE, 599 records to be merged %ACC-I-TOTAL, 599 selected, 32848 rejected, 2 input files This example processes two accounting files. It writes a brief report of all the records for print jobs, sorted in user name order, to an output file and displays informational messages that tell you which files were processed and how many records were selected and rejected.