Peter,

Do you have SAS and MXG at your shop?  If so, then the MXG.SOURCLIB will
have information on what you are looking at.

Lizette


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> On Behalf Of Peter Hunkeler
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 5:28 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Is EXCP data from SMF 30 interval records repeated in step end
> records?
> 
> Please bear with me; I never had to dig into this detail on step end EXCP
SMF
> reporting.
> 
> 
> I'm analysing a perfomance issue with long running (35 hours) a batch job.
> Looking at JESYSMSG, I stumbled across information that our IEFACTRT exit
> writes at step end. There is one step that seamed to do millions of I/Os
> against STEPLIB. STEPLIB is a two DSN concatenation, however, I see dozens
> of STEPLIB related I/O numbers....
> 
> 
> Trying to understand, I started to have a detailed look at the SMF 30
records
> for the step. We do have interval recording, so I can see one subtype 1, a
> bunch of subtype 2, followed by one subtype 3 for the lat interval, and
finally
> 1 subtype 4 records at the end of the step.
> 
> 
> Q1: The I/O counts in the interval records are *not* cumultive, but
reflect
> the count since the previous record has been cut, correct? This is how I
read
> the doc.
> 
> 
> Q2: The EXCP information that was written to the interval records is
repeated
> in the step end record, correct?
> 
> 
> Q3: IEFACTRT will only see subtype 4 records, correct?
> 
> Q4: If Q1-Q3 are correct, this explains why IEFACTRT listing I/Os by
DDname
> and device can shoe dozens or hundreds of EXCP numbers for a two DSN
> STEPLIB.
> 
> Thanks for confirmation or correction where due.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Peter Hunkeler
> 

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