Description

The EVENT_GENERATION option specifies which types of events are to be generated and processed as persistent events by the Universal Event Subsystem (UES).

A persistent event record is saved in a Universal Enterprise Controller (UEC) database, the UES database (uec.evm.db), for long-term storage.

For a list of all event types for all Universal Agent components, see Event Definition Details.

Usage

Method	Syntax	IBM i	HP NonStop	UNIX	Windows	z/OS
Command Line, Short Form	n/a
Command Line, Long Form	n/a
Environment Variable	n/a
Configuration File Keyword	event_generation types

Values

type specifies a comma-separated list of event types. It allows for all or a subset of all potential event message types to be selected.

Event type ranges can be specified by separating the lower and upper range values with a dash ( - ) character.

Event types can be selected for inclusion or exclusion:

Inclusion operator is an asterisk ( * ).
Exclusion operator is X or x.

Examples

100,101,102
Generate event types 100, 101, and 102.
100-102
Generate event types 100 through 102.
100-102,200
Generate event types 100 through 102 and 200.
*
Generate all event types.
*,X100
Generate all event types except for 100.
x*
Generate no event types.
*,X200-250,!300
Generate all event types except for 200 through 250 and 300.

Default is X* (no event types).

Command Usage

The EVENT_GENERATION option is an EVENT option.

EVENT options are associated with program execution, not commands. They are required for event generation, and can be specified only in the configuration file.

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