"Skip Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... > After a decade of parallel sysplexing, I feel like a rookie with log > streams. Up to now we've used system logger only for CICS and RRS. No > operlog, no logrec. So we've never had to deal with the question of how to > handle real data that needs to be kept (archived), massaged, and cleaned > up. > > I'm now playing with the new SMF log stream available in z/OS 1.9. Not many > folks have done this yet, but I think the problems are similar to other > data-type log streams. Capturing the SMF data in a CF structure is easy. > Logger writes the data out to data sets of the form 'hlq.IFASMF.xxx' where > you choose the qualifier and tell the system what the name is. There is a > new dump utility called IFASMFDL. > > Here's the problem. IFASMFDL does most of what IFASMFDP does (and more), > but what it *doesn't* do is clear out the dumped SMF data. In other words, > after archiving the contents of a log stream to a flat file, the now dumped > records are still sitting just where they were. A subsequent run of > IFASMFDL appears to pick up the same records all over again. The output > file just gets bigger and bigger each time the dump is run. >
Skip, I had a 1.9 upgrade course lately and there the problem was recognized, but the suggested solution was to creating IFASMFDL control statements to select "yesterdays" data. IFASMFDL does not (currently) support relative dates. So, if you dump your SMF to flat files daily, you need an initial step to generate the control statements. This does not sound to complicated. Regards, Kees. ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
