Utility and Maintenance Functions › Creating the SCDS File

Creating the SCDS File

During the installation process, sample member CASFNCDS can be used to create the SCDS file. If you installed a previous release of CA SMF Director, you can convert the existing SCDS for use with this release. Use the sample member CASFSCNV to convert the file by

• backing up the existing SCDS file
• allocating a new SCDS file for this release
• restoring the contents of the existing SCDS into the new SCDS.

Note: Record conversion takes place during the restore process.

For more information on SCDS space requirements, see Calculating SCDS Space Requirements later in this chapter.

The following is a sample of the JCL provided to allocate and initialize the SCDS file:

//CASFNCDS JOB (ACCTINFO),PGMR,CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=A
//*
//* THIS SAMPLE JCL ALLOCATES AND INITIALIZES A SCDS FILE
//*
//* NOTE: EDIT AS PER INSTALLATION STANDARDS
//*
//* REFERENCE: SEE CHAPTER 4 IN YOUR CA SMF Director INSTALLATION
//*            GUIDE UNDER 'CALCULATING SCDS SPACE REQUIREMENTS'
//*
//STEP1    EXEC PGM=SMFD,REGION=2M,PARM=INIT
//STEPLIB  DD DISP=SHR,DSN=CASFLOAD                   <-- EDIT
//SCDS DD  DSN=CAI.SMFDIR.SCDS,                       <-- EDIT
//         DISP=(,CATLG),UNIT=SYSDA,
//         SPACE=(4096,(400)),VOL=SER=??????,         <-- EDIT
//         DCB=(RECFM=F,LRECL=4096,BLKSIZE=4096,DSORG=DA)
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSXDIAG DD SYSOUT=*
/*
//