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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.

Note: When you are going to use the ARCHIVE control statement and have IFASMFDL delete the records after they are dumped to SMF Director, then you cannot use date and time control statements in the dump.