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When to Use Date and Time Control Statements

For the first dump of a logstream, we recommend that CA SMF Director be allowed to dump the contents without any timestamps, unless you want to begin from a certain point. If that is the case, we recommend that you only specify start date for the dump, and allow the end date/time to default to the current date/time.

The STARTDATE, STARTTIME, ENDDATE, and ENDTIME parameters are available for recovery situations, where a dump may have been missed. They are also available if you want to begin CA SMF Director management of logstream SMF data from a particular date and time.