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Maintaining Inventory of SMF Records by Date, Time, and Volume Serial

Upon successful completion of the dump process, CA SMF Director keeps track of the date and time of the SMF records placed on a history file, the volume serial of the device where the history data set resides, along with the date and time when the dump process was performed. This eliminates the need for manual recording/tracking of data sets containing SMF records. Optionally an entry for a history file can also be added to the Operating Systems Catalog.

If expiration dates/retention periods are desired for the history files, this product can be customized to automatically delete any entries referring to the expired history data set, and optionally uncatalog the data set from the system catalog.