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BCP_SMF

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DSNTYPE=LARGE support as INPUT for IFASMFDP

This is a new public REQUEST for an older requets to permit user's votes on it.Initial request = MR0311105836 from 2011Migrated to RFE request as: RFE 50060 in 2014Due to increasing of SMF data, we need now to be able to use DSNTYPE=LARGE with IFA...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Provide Date Time Offset (DTO), Leap Second Offset (LSO) and Time Zone Offset (TZ) values in the SMF record header

With the growing need to load SMF data into analytical tools, the requirement to align and associate the various records from multiple time zones using date and time is becoming more critical. The reliance on specific SMF generators to provide the...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

Copy SMF records to zWIN zfs without using FTP.

Currently, to copy SMF TYPE98/TYPE100 records requires using FTP. Unless using FTP, the RDW is not written to the zFS file and zWIN cannot process the records. Various utilities were tested, including File Manager but none of them copy the RDW. Th...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

SMF Type 30 Subtype 5 records contain last step condition code instead of End-of-job condition code

SMF Type 30 Subtype 5 (EOJ or end-of-job) records should contain the highest condition code of the job in the SMF5JCC field. The current condition code information is not representative of the entire job but only of the last step run in the job.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance Report of IFASMFDL

IBM Redbook SG247919 includes three SMF user exits SMFDPUX3, SMFDPUX2 and SMFDPUX1 which show a much more detailled report of the records dumped as the standard record does. The report includes the subtypes and the system ID where the record came ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

After zEDC Outage IFASMFDL ends with RC4 but dumps no data

If there is any Problem with dumping from a logstream, IFASMFDL should not end with RC4 but with RC8 or RC16 as soon as the data dumped from the stream is reduced due to the error.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Need SMFLIM to check for REGION=0M jobs (IEFUSI replacement)

Customer objective is to eliminate the use of IEFUSI and replace it's rules using SMFLIM. Currently they have coded in IEFUSI that all the JOBS should be changed to REGION=150MB, but those jobs that are coded with REGION=0M. These ones can use the...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

SMF logstream - implement size parm to force I SMF/IEFU29L

In SMF dataset mode, when a SYS1.MANx dataset is full, our SMF dump process can calculate how much space is needed for the dump dataset (by issuing a LISTC on the SYS1.MANx dataset). In SMF logstream mode, there is no easy way to programatically d...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

SMFLIMxx processing needs to be enhanced.

SMFLIMxx processing needs to be enhanced to allow for a REGION statement match to indicate that no other REGION statements should be processed.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

Allow SID on OUTDD for IFASMFDL program

System: SMF Logstream Dump programActor: Any user of SMF data IFASMFDL program is used to dump SMF data from logstreams. Description IFASMFDL program does not allow SID on the OUTDD statement. Multiple jobs have to run to dump unique SID to separa...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Future consideration

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