For SMF, the key is actually to switch to logstreams and get rid of the GDGs! :-)
Bob -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: GDG Question >Well... I do use GDG for SMF, but I create one generation a day and use DISP=MOD for further offloads. Risky choice. What happens if the offloading job fails for some reason? You could lose all the accumulated data. >BTW: In your scenario you don't know how old data do you have! The data can be rolled off depending on the amount, not depending on age. Do you expect your SMF data to be dumped more than 255 times a day? The key is to switch at midnight, consolidate, and then delete the day's dumps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
