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6.3.4.5.2 CA Deliver Output Management Generated SMF

CA Deliver Output Management is an automated online report
distribution and output tracking system for use on the IBM
MVS operating systems.

The SMF type 6 records produced by CA Deliver contain
standard IBM SMF type 6 record fields and some additional
fields from the CA Deliver database.  These records are
nonstandard SMF type 6 records.

CA Deliver SMF type 6 records are produced for each job that
created a report for bundled or non-bundled reports.  A
"bundle of reports" is a "package" of previously defined
CA Deliver reports generated by one or more jobs at the same
or different times in a cycle and grouped together by
CA Deliver. Non-bundled reports contain no report identifier
in any definition of a bundle of reports.

These CA Deliver pseudo type 6 records do not contain a
device name, since it is not known where the recipient's
report will be printed at the time the report is created.
The job name in these special type 6 records will be the job
name of the application job that created the report.

Standard SMF type 6 records will be created by JES, PSF, or
External Writer sub systems.  To determine printer activity,
use the standard SMF type 6 records, because they identify
the actual output device name used to print a report.

The job name on the SMF standard type 6 record will always
have the creating job name in the SMF6JBN field. Non-bundled
reports will have the application job name that created the
SYSOUT.  Bundled reports will have the job name of the job
that was run to create the bundle.  This job name is stored
in the CA Deliver database after the job that created the
bundle has been run.

Bundles that were printed from CA Deliver, will have the
started task job name of RMOSTC.

The printed SYSOUT data sets are accounted for twice, once by
CA Deliver-generated records, and again by the JES, PSF,
or External Writer-generated SMF type 6 records.  Both
CA Deliver and standard SMF type 6 records should be allowed
to create BATSPL observations.  The CA Deliver record should
be used to provide accountability back to the original job.