First off, thank you to all that responded to this inquiry. Some additional information:
On our systems that are still running on the z/14 processor, the triplets, Offset, Length, and Count are all present in the SMF type 30 record. The products in question are using the unauthorized method of zEDC compression and de-compression. In order to get the use of the facility, it was Necessary to add FPZ.ACCELERATOR.COMPRESSION Read access the specific started tasks. This was necessary in the pre z/15 days. For SMF type 30 records created on non z/15 processors, All 3 fields are filled in with data. With the compression now incorporated in the z/15 hardware, we have seen only the Offset and length fields filled in. I need to point out that only the un-authorized tasks exhibit this Anomaly. The reference material I have viewed is https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R4sa2313 77/$file/ieac100_v2r4.pdf . It's not a big issue, just that how do we know if compression is really taking place Sincerely; Kenneth J. Kripke ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
