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BCP_SMF

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Eliminate SMF Type30 OMVS process section having all zeros

Provide a means of eliminating OMVS process sections that contain only zeros.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under 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 ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future 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.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

IFASMFDL DUMP start date time window

While switching from SMF dataset mode to logstream mode, we noticed that IFASMFDP (dataset mode) behaves differently than IFASMFDL (logstream) wrt the date/time windows:- IFASMFDP allows to dump records from start date "-1"/time "xx:xx" up until e...
over 5 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.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

Support Permanently Register Products (IFAEDREG / IFAUSAGE)

The IFAEDREG and IFAUSAGE services should support the ability to permanently register a product for the life of the IPL.
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.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

IFASMFDL RC=8 when error in LOGSTREAM

When there is an error when reading the LOGSTREAM, so that it is not safe that all requested data is present, the return code should be 8 instead of 4 because RC=4 indicate only a warning.RC=8 indicate an error. In our case we got a MSG 'IFA819I E...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

SMF Record for dataset allocation

If a dataset is allocated by a DD statement in a batch job and never opened, the dataset is allocated for the duration of the job step however no SMF record is cut.
about 7 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.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

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