No, not irrelevant at all. The original question was "to determine when a certain program was executed." The problem is that there is no record in SMF of every program executed. Jobstep program names are recorded in SMF. The "certain program" might not be a jobstep program, but it might well show up as the highest CPU program. That's why this field is relevant to the original question.
Moving on from the original question, why the heck -- 20 years after Open Edition -- would IBM create a program name field and not make it variable length, or at least longer than 8 characters (as they did with SMF30EXN). Or are you saying that the "Program name running in the task that used the largest percentage of CPU time in this address space" could only be a legacy load module/PDSE program object, not a program residing in an HFS directory? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 6:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF Type 30 > The "program name" (defined how? as the final node of the path name?) would > have to be somewhat less, but certainly in the 21st >century might be well > over 8. Irrelevant to the original point. SMF30_Highest_Task_CPU_Program is for tasks, not for processes. If you need an SMF field for processes that supports long names, write a requirement. Bob Shannon ================================ Rocket Software, Inc. and subsidiaries ■ 77 Fourth Avenue, Waltham MA 02451 ■ +1 800.966.3270 ■ +1 781.577.4321 Unsubscribe From Commercial Email – unsubscr...@rocketsoftware.com Manage Your Subscription Preferences - http://info.rocketsoftware.com/GlobalSubscriptionManagementEmailFooter_SubscriptionCenter.html Privacy Policy - http://www.rocketsoftware.com/company/legal/privacy-policy ================================ This communication and any attachments may contain confidential information of Rocket Software, Inc. All unauthorized use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Rocket Software immediately and destroy all copies of this communication. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
