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SMF Analysis Program (SMFX37B) used with StopX37/II

You can use the SMF Analysis Program (SMFX37B) analyze the SMF file for SMF records.

For information to be available, StopX37/II must be started (refer to Using-BMC-AMI-Storage-products for information about starting StopX37/II).

The job produces a report that contains the job name, program name, job start time and date, data set name, and action taken. Multiple entries might exist for the same job, because might make several recovery attempts while saving the job.

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StopX37-II-utilities

BMC recommends making this program a part of the daily SMF processing routine. If StopX37/II has switched a permanent data set to a different volume, the SMFX37B program can inform your site’s DASD manager about which data sets are multivolume.

In large data centers, where large amounts of generated SMF data make it difficult to run the SMFX37B program, you can change the SMF dump program to write records to a separate generation data set by issuing the following job stream:

Writing SMF records to a generation data set

//SMFDUMP JOB ...
//DUMP   EXEC PGM=IFASMFDP
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A
//DUMPIN   DD DSN=SYS1.MANX,DISP=SHR
//DUMPOUT  DD DSN=SYS1.DUMP(+1),DISP=(NEW,CATLG),UNIT=TAPE
//X37OUT   DD DSN=SYS1.X37OUT(+1),DISP=(NEW,CATLG),UNIT=SYSDA
//SYSIN    DD *
 INDD(DUMPIN,OPTIONS(ALL))
 OUTDD(DUMPOUT,TYPE(000:255))
 OUTDD(X37OUT,TYPE(201))
/*

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BMC AMI Storage StopX37/II 8.2