On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:22:59 -0500, John Eells wrote: >Starting in z/OS R9, you can send SMF data to a log stream. You >will be able to separate different sets of SMF record types to >different log streams, specify different retention periods for >different log streams, and so on. There will be a new version of >IFASMFDP (IFASMFDL) that knows how to get SMF data from a log stream. > >If you can hold off long enough to get to R9, this should be >worth a look. It's intended to solve exactly the kinds of >problems you're having. Hmmm... maybe IBM could have pity on its customers and package those SMF changes as an SPE for z/OS 1.7 and 1.8? Not many shops will be on 1.9 for a year and a fair number won't be on 1.9 for up to 2 years. That's a long time to make customers wait for relief. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI
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