Logging
WebSphere MQ maintains logs of data changes and significant events as they occur. The bootstrap data set (BSDS) stores information about the data sets that contain the logs.
This chapter contains the following sections:
- What logs are
- How the log is structured
- How the logs are written
- What the bootstrap data set is for
- Where to find more information
The log does not contain information for statistics, traces, or performance evaluation. The statistical and monitoring information that WebSphere MQ collects is discussed in Monitoring and statistics.