Thanks. I will check again, I missed this. The reusing of MAN1, is what I needed clarification on.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2014, at 11:14 AM, "Staller, Allan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would look in the SMF manual. The current version for z/OS 2.1 is > SA38-0667-02 > > Without looking it up: > > The system will attempt to write to SYS1.MAN1 (as specified in SMFPRM00). > If SYS1.MAN1 is not available (full or otherwise), SYS1.MAN2-n are used in > sequence, > If SYS1.MAN1 is made available while SYS1.MAN2-n are in use, the system will > return to SYS1.MAN1 at the next SMF switch. > > ZEOD writes the current set of SMF buffers and closes the current MANx. > > If ZEOD is not issued, SMF will resume writing to the "current" MANx dataset > (be it 2 , 3, 9, 10 or whatever) until full and then will behave as described > above. > > HTH, > > <snip> > We have six MAN datasets spread across three volumes; I notice that the ‘I > SMF’ command switches between only the first and second MAN datasets. Is > there any doc, explaining how SMF processes the MAN datasets? On our two > production systems a ‘Z EOD’ command is issued when the system comes down for > an IPL, when will SMF write to MAN3, 4, etc.? On our systems programming > LPAR, where no ‘Z EOD’ is issued, I do see SMF writing to MAN datasets beyond > MAN2, when the system is IPL’d. > </snip> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
