If you have SAS & MXG there is ANALSMF with MXG which provides a very useful analysis of SMF data contents and SMF data set & buffer utilization.
http://www.sas.com/ http://www.mxg.com/ THIS PROGRAM ANALYZES YOUR SMF DATA TO REPORT THE OPTIMUM VSAM CISIZE TO MINIMIZE THE SIZE OF YOUR VSAM SMF FILES, AND THE PROGRAM ALSO ANALYZES HOW FREQUENTLY VSAM RECORDS ARE WRITTEN AT YOUR SITE. YOU MUST SET THE CURRENT CISIZE IN USE AT YOUR SITE IN THE MACRO _MYCISIZ FOR THE FREQUENCY ANALYSIS. THE PROGRAM ALSO ANALYZES THE SMF FILE TO PRODUCE REPORTS WHICH DESCRIBE HOW MANY SMF CONTROL-INTERVALS (I.E., BLOCKS) WERE WRITTEN ON EACH SYSTEM, AND WITHIN THOSE PEAK THIRTY SECONDS, THIS PROGRAM IDENTIFIES THE SOURCE OF THE SMF DATA (RMF, JOB-ACCT, JOB-IO, CICS, ETC.), AND THE FINAL REPORT IDENTIFIES THE RECORD IDS WITHIN EACH SOURCE FOR EACH SECOND. If you have SAS already either on a PC or the mainframe and support z/OS investing in MXG one of the few real "no brainer" expenses you can make. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (office) 301.986.3574 "Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..." -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Víctor de la Fuente Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How SMFDUMP works? Then I have another problem...we use z/OS 1.4! Nevertheless, we already thought about the problem you said. But our system is about 80% CPU, and we are used to be in 100%. I know there is no implication with cpu and smf writing, but I can suppose we had more smf writing per second a lot of times. The only possibility, I think, is any new program who is making SMF work hard. But I don't know how can we look for a program who "is writing" a lot of SMF data... :-( So, now we have two problems: - Dump file stays in CLOSE PENDING STATUS for a long time. - It looks like SMF is getting slow in writing records to dump file (because I'm almost sure there is no more writing than usual). Can they be two sympthoms of the same problem? ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
