What are you going to do? There are several freeware functions available to read SMF.
If you tell us what you want to do, perhaps we can give better answers. Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > Of Jose ADAUTO Ribeiro > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 11:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Reading Active SMF dataset > > Hi, > > Could someone give me some help: I would like to know if it is possible to > get in some > control block (or via some MACRO/API program) the name of the active SMF > dataset > (and the alternates too). I will do this in an assembler program. > > In addition I would like to know the best way to read, after its dynamic > allocation, the > SMF file to select some types of records. I did a test program that read a > pre-allocated > SMF data set using VSAM macros OPEN/GET with RPL OPTCD=(CNV,SEQ), but I don't > know if there is another better way. > > Thanks for any tips. > > José ADAUTO Ribeiro > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
