Thanks much, Barbara. Follow-ups in-line. Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara Nitz Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 9:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS Charles, > If *I* understand you right, then you're confusing SUBSYS as indicated in SMFPRM and a subsystem defined to the SSI. > The SMF SUBSYS types *I* am aware of are JESx, STC, TSO, OMVS, ASCH. That's it. So, is it true that for SMFPRMxx SUBSYS(xxx,(... the only useful "xxx" are the five or six types listed above? I say "useful" rather than "valid" because I don't mean that SMF would necessarily generate an error for SUBSYS(FOO( -- it might, I just don't care at this moment -- but it would not be meaningful to specify. You might have an SSI subsystem named FOO, but SMFPRMxx SUBSYS(FOO( would either be rejected or else would have no effect on it or SMF. Right? > TYPE30 can be written for any SUBSYS type. As can TYPE80. 100, 101, 102, 119: > If an application that is TYPE OMVS ... has calls into DB2, then they would get written for TYPE OMVS > if that address space was started using the USS interfaces for creating an address space. ... and any SUBSYS(OMVS( statements would control whether they were written and whether IEFU8x was called for those records, right? > When in doubt, have your customer have one SYS statement that only specifies the types that are to be written ... In an ideal world, yes. In the real world, we are one of those $%%#$@$ vendors and we are dealing with some overworked, undertrained, junior sysprog, and telling him or her "make big changes to your SMFPRMxx" sets off little alarm bells that go "this vendor's product is not worth getting fired over." The more minimal a change we can *suggest* the better our chances of success. This whole thing would be an easy problem if I could control the SMFPRMxx. In many cases, I am trying to sort out a bunch of possible causes of a problem, and so I need to know what their SMFPRMxx is "saying" (no matter how "illogically" it may be coded) so that I don't go chasing after the wrong problem. Hence these kind of obscure questions. > HTH Very much. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
