Uwe, The SMF dates DT1, DT2, DT3 are of the format (X'0cyydddF') in their raw form. So you can treat them as PD fields and extract the data you want.
ex: //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SORTIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=Your Input SMF file //SORTOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD * OPTION COPY,VLSHRT INCLUDE COND=(06,1,BI,EQ,16,AND, $ TYPE 16 (7,4,BI,GT,3600000,AND, $ TIME 7,4,BI,LT,3960000),AND, 11,4,PD,EQ,112215) $ (X'0CYYDDDF' = AUG02 12) //* Elardus Engelbrecht, You cannot use DTn formats with INCLUDE/OMIT Thanks, Sri Hari Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation Email: skol...@us.ibm.com Phone: 408-463-2403 Tie Line 543-2403 IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> wrote on 08/28/2012 08:05:09 AM: > From: Uwe Oswald <uwe.osw...@zit-consulting.com> > To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, > Date: 08/28/2012 08:06 AM > Subject: Exclude SMF Records by date&time with DFSORT > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> > > Hi, > > has somebody ever tried to exclude (!) SMF records from a dataset > with DFSORT? My interest is especially to exclude several (more than > one) date and time ranges. Has someone an example for me, please? > > Thx in advance. > > Cheers, > Uwe > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN