One thing that we do is dump the days data first, then run a job later to split records for various functions.
Aldridge Murrell -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: How are you handling high SMF record volume? We are running into issues with the volume of SMF records that we need to process. We create a GDG every day for that day's records. Occasionaly we run into contention issues during the day but mostly it hits us at the end of the day when we read the day's records from the GDG and split the output into various other tapes for specific functions (accounting, performance, etc). While that job is reading the many tapes created during the day, the GDG base is locked so our dump jobs are forced to wait which eventually causes lost SMF data. Has anyone else run into this problem? How are other shops handling high SMF volumes? We have 4 SMF datasets on each LPAR. Two are 3000 cyl and two are 1500 cyl. A side issue is that we are capturing DB2 trace records in SMF. We have tried to turn them off but our performance area 'needs' them. We would like to move these records from SMF to GTF but we use MXG and were told that MXG cannot handle input from GTF. Any ideas? Is anyone using MXG with GTF input? Thanks much for any help! Jon Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860) 636-2683 ----------------------------------------- This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
