System Description › The SMFD Program

The SMFD Program

SMFD is an authorized program that acts as an intelligent dispatcher for CA SMF Director. It does the following:

• tests the syntax of commands and control statements
• calls other CA SMF Director programs to perform these tasks:
  • dumping SMF data sets and archiving SMF logstreams
  • creating an inventory of the SMF data
  • printing and/or extracting SMF data
  • reporting on processing options
  • reporting on SMF inventory
  • backup, restore, initialize, add, delete, and update utility functions

The SMFD program accepts specific processing options from the PARM keyword of the EXEC JCL statement. These options are BACKUP, DUMP, FORCE, IGNORE, INIT, NOSTAE, READ, RESTORE, PERMIT and NODUPS.