"Richards, Robert B." <robert.richa...@opm.gov> wrote in message
news:<538523e4ec70a1409a113c09a9179a970b80c...@wdcvexvs2.opm.gov>...
> Buried on page 23 of the announcement PDF:
> 
>  
> 
> "In z/OS V1.11, the SMF log stream dump utility, IFASMFDL, is planned
to
> allow you to specify a range of dates relative to the date on which
the
> program is started. For example, you will be able to specify that the
> SMF records created yesterday, or those created for six days starting
> nine days ago, be processed. This design will allow date ranges to be
> specified by days, weeks, or months. Also, IFASMFDL is planned to
> support new options to manage the retention of the data in the SMF log
> stream and allow you to specify that data by archived (dumped and
> deleted) or deleted from the log stream. These new IFASMFDL functions
> are intended to make it easier to exploit log stream-based SMF data
> management."
> 

If this is all, it is really poor. After so many years and releases of
waiting and complaining, they can only come up with "n days"? Who says
our day cut-off is at midnight (in the middle of our batch window)? Why
not also the fromtime-totime of IFASMFDP or a complete from-date-time
and to-date-time? 

Kees.
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