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Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
System z Performance and Availability Management
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"Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..."
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Mark Zelden
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 12:02 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SMF LOGGER - Not Ready for Prime Time
On Thu, 14 May 2009 14:41:48 -0700, Skip Robinson
<[email protected]>
wrote:
>We were early adopters of SMF logger in order to prepare for a winter
SHARE
>session after a 1.9 ESP. At that time we used it only in the sandbox
>sysplex where SMF data was throwaway. It's now running also in the
>development sysplex where SMF data is actually cherished and nurtured.
With
>only a hiccup or two, the process has been reliable if a bit kludgy.
The
>main problems I recall have involved a shortage of DASD space for the
>offload data sets. Normally there's plenty here, but some (dimly
>recollected) condition caused an offload failure. I don't know whether
the
>weakness is in SMF's use of logger or in logger itself, but once a
'full'
>condition occurs and the structure gets disconnected, I've had a very
hard
>time jump starting the process without losing data.
>
>There are rumblings about improvements on the way that should upgrade
the
>prime time status from 'not ready' to 'get set'. Maybe even 'go'.
>
>.
More than rumblings now. This showed up in my ASAP this morning. I'm
glad IBM was kind enough to roll this support back to z/OS 1.9 in
addition
to z/OS 1.10. Better late than never.... :-)
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