That would account for it. I knew there were continuation records and I had read that paragraph but because I am only focused on the completion section I saw it as a missing completion section; I did not think "continuation."
Thanks, Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Rutledge Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 5:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What does it indicate when an SMF 30 subtype 4 or 5 has no completion section? On 5/17/2016 7:10 PM, Charles Mills wrote: >>From time to time I see SMF 30 subtype 4 and 5 records with no >>completion > section. Kind of an oxymoron: a step or job completion record with no > completion section. > > Can anyone educate me on what that would indicate? How would one "interpret" > such a record? > > FWIW, I am looking at one now. Record + X'30' contains 0000022C > 00080000 -- a reasonable offset and the expected length but a count of zero. > > Record + X'22C' is all zeros and "unused" -- the next triplet section > begins at +X'234'. > > It appears to be from an apparently normal TSO logoff. > > This is V2R1 but I have seen them on multiple releases. You're looking at a continuation record. Read about "first" and "additional" records in the introduction section for "Record Type 30 (1E) -- Common Address Space Work" in the SMF book. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
