On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:26:06 -0400, Clark, Kevin wrote: >Mark, > >We will be starting this process next month. Our monthly SMF tape is produced on the 2nd day of the next month already, so all days of the previous month are account for. > >The cost saving dictate changing your business collection process. keep in mind you could cut a tape with just the records that SCRT needs seperatly from the your normal SMF process. > >Don't work about extra dates , the product will select the right grouping for the report. >
You need to be careful though. The process defaults to "current month" when you run it. If you automate it, the programs might make interesting determinations of what "current month" means. We keep weekly SMF backups with a daily GDG series that rolls up into the weekly. Since you can never tell where a week ends in relation to an IBM month, our process takes 5 generations of weekly backups and the whole daily series every time it runs (3rd calendar day of every month). I also supply the PARM "Report_Period=Last_Month" so there is no ambiguity. I can re-run it anytime within the month following without having to mess with the PARMs. And since you have to run it after the 1st completes, "Last_Month" always works for the normally scheduled JOB too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
