Customizing CA SMF Director › Unloading SMF Data Sets

Unloading SMF Data Sets

Once the desired configuration has been defined, this product is ready to manage your SMF data. If you have existing files that contain SMF records, but were not managed by this product, you can copy the existing data sets to CA SMF Director history files. During this process, this product creates an inventory of what data resides on the output history file and stores it on the SCDS file. You can use CASFJCL target library member CASFDMP4 to perform this function.

The CA Common Services for z/OS program CAIRIM is used by CA SMF Director to enable or disable the automatic dump feature (refer to the Installation Guide for more details).

CA SMF Director can be used to unload (dump and clear) the SYSx.MANx z/OS operating system SMF data sets at the operator's discretion, at specific times by a job scheduling product such as CA SCHEDULER, or automatically when an SMF data set is switched or becomes full. Procedure CASFDUMP has been provided in the CASFPROC library to perform this function. It can be modified to meet your site requirements. In addition, the procedure may be modified to indicate one or more files, called split files, that will be written to as indicated by SPLIT control statements (See Chapter 4 for more details on the SPLIT control statement.)

CASFJCL target library member CASFDMP1 illustrates how the CASFDUMP procedure can be invoked to start the dump process using a batch job. An operator can also start the dump process manually by entering the z/OS START command:

S CASFDUMP,ALTDS=DUMMY

In the unlikely event that CA SMF Director is unable to unload the SMF data from the SYSx.MANx files, the IBM utility IFASMFDP can be used to dump and clear the SMF data sets, and later the output file created by IFASMFDP can be copied or manually added by CA SMF Director (see the next two sections for further details).