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Dumping the SMF Records

After you have created the statistics records using the SETOPTION commands, you must put these records into a usable form for the CA MIM report generation utility or the record selection utility. To do this, you need to execute the IBM utility IFASMFDP.

The IFASMFDP utility copies all records from the SMF data sets to SMF dump data sets for permanent storage. The dumped data sets are of a physical sequential organization and have a variable blocked spanned (VBS) record format. This format allows CA MIM to either run a hardcopy report from these records or put these records into record subtype output files for later report processing.

Note: For more information about the SMF dump program procedure, see the appropriate IBM System Management Facility (SMF) guide.