Hi Folks, Sending events to a zOS syslog via a fileappender; <!-- Appender for the FILEAPPENDER --> <appender name="FILEAPPENDER" class="org.apache.log4j.FileAppender"> <param name="Append" value="true"/> <param name="File" value="/dev/console"/> <layout class="com.es.event.layout.JSFEventTextLay <param name="LayoutClass" value="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"/> <param name="LayoutParam1" value= </layout> <!-- The threshold parameter will limit the values handled by this appender --> <param name="Threshold" value="INFO"/> <filter class="com.es.event.filter.SystemEventFilter"/> <filter class="org.apache.log4j.varia.DenyAllFilter"/> </appender> On our system in US, I get; INFO - ACIJMX 6010 5 Output logged to console of Process RFSH: On clients site in Europe; INFO - ÝACIJMX¨ Ý6010¨ Ý5¨ Output logged to console of Process RFSH: Anyone hit this before on Z, or more specifically zOS /Unix System Services? Regards, Rob Lister"%-5p %x - %m%n"/>