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The SMFDLS Program

SMFDLS is an authorized program that acts as a wrapper for the IBM SMF logstream dump utility IFASMFDL. The program also interfaces with SMFD by attaching it as a subtask when archiving data from logstreams. It does the following:

• Tests the syntax of the control statements for SMFDLS (which are different from SMFD and are placed in a different data set).
• Invokes the IBM SMF logstream utility IFASMFDL to read data from SMF logstreams. IFASMFDL will be called with specific user exits that will process the records from the logstreams.
• Attaches SMFD to perform the dump process for the records in the logstream and create history files, dump indexes, and so on.

Note: SMFDLS is only used at dump time for the archival of logstream records. The SMFD program handles all other functions for the archived SMF data, whether or not it came from a logstream or MAN file.