Reporting and Logging › Systems Management Facilities Record Tracking

Systems Management Facilities Record Tracking

CA Tape Encryption lets you create Systems Management Facilities (SMF) records to track encryption-related processing. Compression statistics about the percentage of a tape used can be tracked with SMF.

CA Tape Encryption keeps detailed records in the BES database for the last 1,000 files encrypted or decrypted by each subsystem. As new files are encrypted or decrypted, the oldest detail records are purged from the BES database. Use SMF records to retain information beyond this 1,000-file limit. By creating SMF records of CA Tape Encryption activity, you can keep an unlimited amount of detailed encryption and decryption information in your SMF data sets.

Note: For information about using SMF, see the IBM MVS Systems Management Facility (SMF) manual for your level of z/OS.