It is documented for many newer SMF records that the COUNT field is the sole indicator that there are in fact these segments in this record. The OFFSET seems always to be busy, and the value of the location of the next triplet, even when this is the last triplet.
As noted, the Length value of zero is now used to indicate that the actual length is in the first two bytes at the offsed, if COUNT is non-zero. Barry Merrilly yours, Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD President-Programmer Merrill Consultants MXG Software 10717 Cromwell Drive technical questions: supp...@mxg.com Dallas, TX 75229 http://www.mxg.com admin questions: ad...@mxg.com tel: 214 351 1966 fax: 214 350 3694 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of DanD Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 2:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Odd SMF 30 data within IEFACTRT Thanks everyone. I WILL check all 3 fields for zeros in the future. It's still odd that the 1st record has an offset and length but the count is zeros... "Here's the section your looking for ... it's this big ... and there are NONE" what? ;-) Dan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
