TLOG messaging standard

In the retail industry, a TLOG is the Point of Sale (POS) Transaction Log. The TLOG is a complete, detailed record of everything that occurs at the POS terminal - including events that are not directly related to a sales transaction. Typically, the precise TLOG record format is unique to a given POS application, but the majority of formats are based on a tagged/delimited string format called Raw TLOG.

Raw TLOG messages can be modeled using the MRM Tagged/Delimited String Format (TDS).

If you are working with TLOG messages you can specify whether fields in the messages are character format or a format specific to the message. This requires the Messaging Standard property (at the message set level) to be set to TLOG and relevant objects that have this non-character based field in the TDS message to have their Physical Type property set to Messaging Standard Alternate.

Predefined message set solutions for TLOG can be purchased from IBM.

Related concepts
Message modeling
The message model
TDS format: Relationship to the logical model
Related tasks
Developing message models
Working with message model objects
Related reference
Message model reference information
Message model object properties
Additional MRM domain information
Additional TDS information
TDS Industry standard formats