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Signed SMF Records - Improvement of the Validation Process with IFASMFDL

Currently one has to follow the below steps to activate and validate signed SMF records (According: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=records-setting-up-using-digitally-signed-smf).The basic steps to set up and use digitally signed SMF r...
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

Automated SMF Collection based on PARMLIB setting or z/OSMF Settings Plugin

SMF collection on z/OS does not establish a standard HLQ or dataset naming conventions for SMF collection and history. Basically every shop has their own process of collecting SMF which involves customization of z/OS exits to capture when the data...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

SMF type30 to include on task/job level ECSA/CSA and PVT/ePVT actual usage

Please include on type30 SMF record task level ECSA/CSA and PVT/ePVT actual usage fields.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 3 Not under consideration

SMF recording type lacking indicator

Currently when switching recording modes from LOGSTREAM to DATASET no message is produced that is unique to the recording mode/type.There is also no easy way to Display the SMF recording mode. Suggestion: We would like to request such a command li...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 3 Not under consideration

Provide a non-APF authorized way of obtaining the SMF log stream names

Please provide a non-APF authorized way of obtaining the SMF log stream names (all, or just the ones I am authorized to read is both fine).The purpose is to know which ones to open to get the complete last few hours of SMF. We then read the SMF lo...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

Please include the CPU Time Limit for a Job/Step in SMF Type 30

The CPU Time Limit in effect for a JobStep is not currently written to SMF Type30 at the end of the step. While a job is running this information is available in the Address Space Control Block (ASCBJSTL) and can be displayed or even modified by t...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

Enable digitally signed SMF record validation for shutdown/IPL

We create daily SMF dump file with digitally signed SMF records. We then validate (SIGVALIDATE) these files with IFASMFDP. When we shutdown/IPL the system we are not able to successfully validate the SMF dump file of that day.We need to be able to...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Not under consideration

Reduce volume of IFA786W messages when buffers fill up

We had an issue resulting in SMF log stream had no buffers available resulting in the following message being issued literally thousands of time and flooding our automation product and console: IFA786W SMF DATA LOST - NO BUFFER SPACE AVAILABLE TIM...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

Add field to SMF30 record for 0M/NOLIMIT Request

Add a field to the SMF30 record to reflect when a region request of 0M/NOLIMIT is specified.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

Real time SMF need support high level language APIs (Restful, Java, Phython, etc, priority from high to low)

Hope to provide higher level language APIs (Restful, Java, Phython, priority from high to low) support to get real time SMF.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

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