Patent ID: 7363631

Claim:
A processor-based method for providing access to a plurality of event log files, comprising: writing information to respective current logical portions of the plurality of event log files by an open distributed transaction processing system in response to processing of transactions; initiating a first service in response to a service call by a client; instructing the open distributed transaction processing system, via the first service, to cycle a selected one of the plurality of event log files identified by a file name provided by a client to the first service; preventing cycling of an event log file requested by file name by the first service in response to a first state of a first configuration parameter that is associated with all of the plurality of event log files, wherein the preventing includes preventing the cycling in response to a second state of the first configuration parameter and a first state of a second configuration parameter associated with the event log file with the input file name; and cycling the selected one of the plurality of event log files in response to the second state of the first configuration parameter and a second state of the second configuration parameter, wherein cycling includes stopping writing of information to the current logical portion of the file and commencing writing of information to a new logical portion of the file by the open distributed transaction processing system in cycling the event log file, whereby the new logical portion becomes the current logical portion.