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Protecting Data Sets Containing SMF Records

Various control keywords are provided in CA SMF Director allowing the specification of the retention period or expiration date of a history file. Permanent retention of history files is also provided if desired by specifying a never-expire expiration date such as 99.366. Because the history files are created with an expiration date, it minimizes the possibility of destroying a history file containing SMF records.