On 26/06/2024 10:05 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote:
1. If the installation chooses to run multiple processes in a single AS,
I know of no way to separate the data for individual processes. Is
there a new SMF record type for that purpose?
There is some data for individual processes in the type 30 record in the
z/OS Unix Process Section. However, because you can have multiple
processes, the information can be spread across multiple records if
there is too much information for a single record. So it isn't
necessarily in the same SMF record as e.g. the Processor Accounting section.
2. The converse issue is aggregating all of data for processes
spawned by a single job. Is there anything in the type 30 to
identify the original job?
The issue of which processes should be aggregated is also difficult. For
example, you probably want processes spawned by sshd accounted
separately (although there are multiple levels, some belong to sshd,
some to the user logging in.) But if a batch job does some work under
UID 0, it still belongs to the batch job.
There is a session id which identifies related processes, but the
original job might end long before or long after the other processes so
it can be difficult to relate them in the SMF data.
--
Andrew Rowley
Black Hill Software
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