> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tom Marchant > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:23 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Any way to duplex SMF data? > > > Bulletproof shoes? > > Of course, you can mirror your MANx data sets, but when you empty them, > the mirrors are emptied too. > > The same applies to the dumped SMF data. You could always dump your > MANx data sets twice, the first with OPTIONS(DUMP) and the second with > OPTIONS(ALL). Do them both in the same job to ensure that the MANx data > set does not change in between. > > If your process is to create a new data set every time you dump (e.g. > generation data sets) you could then copy that data set to another dats > set. > In that case, you need to figure out when to delete the copies. > > You need to fix the way the original dump data sets are kept. They should > be > kept for a long enough time after they are added to your monthly tapes > that > you are sure that they were accumulated correctly. > > -- > Tom Marchant > Tom, why not dump them to two output files in the same step. You can allocate two output DD statements and duplex the data in one process. It would save time over dumping twice.
INDD(SMFIN,OPTIONS(ALL)) OUTDD(SMFOUT1,TYPE(0:255)) OUTDD(SMFOUT2,TYPE(0:255)) Tom Kelman ***************************************************************************** If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. ***************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html