I ran DCOLLECT daily (to a GDS) as part of storage tracking. I don't think you will find accurate/useable data in SMF.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Jack Zukt > Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2024 12:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Calculating used dataset space > > Hello Steve, > I do not know if there are backups to be restored. If there are it will be > worth a > try. Thank you for the suggestion. > Regards > Jack > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2024, 19:51 Steve Estle < 000005dcac13570d-dmarc- > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Jack, > > > > I might be missing something here, but do you have backups of the > > datasets from when you want space information? If so, you can restore > > datasets (ADRDSSU or equivalent) and then measure usage using standard > > tools - ISPF, ISMF, etc. > > > > Possibly I'm misunderstanding but perhaps this is quickest way forward vs. > > reading SMF records. > > > > If have to go SMF records and have SAS/MXG that might be quickest way > > forward. > > > > Thanks, > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
