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Configuring CA SMF Director

You customize CA SMF Director by defining configuration options. These customized configuration options are maintained in the SCDS. Three levels of granularity are available when configuring this product:

• Complex-wide configuration options. These options define specifications to CA SMF Director, regardless of the z/OS system within the computing complex on which it executes. These are specified on the OPTIONS control statement.
• System configuration options. These options control how this product will create and maintain the SMF history files. Every system that generates SMF data that this product manages must also be defined to this product. Options that are specific to a particular system are specified on the DUMPOPTIONS control statement.
• Stream configuration options. These options allow overrides for a particular stream of SMF records, whether they come from an SMF logstream or from a CA SMF Director substream. With this level, records can be managed more effectively based on business needs. Options that are specific to only one stream are specified on the STREAMOPTIONS control statement.

The DUMPOPTIONS control statement is used to indicate which logstreams or substreams are to have their data managed by CA SMF Director. The other operands on the DUMPOPTIONS statement set the default SMF record management parameters. The STREAMOPTIONS statement can be used to override most of the DUMPOPTIONS as needed for a specific stream that is being used by a system for SMF records.