Decisions around how long to keep SMF data in the log streams are unique per customer installation. IBM does not make recommendations for that. For your IFASMFDL return code concerns, implementing a post processing job log 'scraper' world be useful to take specific actions based on the messages in the job log that are returned by IFASMFDL.
Bonnie Ordonez, IBM, SMF Level 3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN