Peter Hunkeler wrote:

>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.

Do you also see subtype 5 (Job termination)?

>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.

This is also how I read it. AFAIK, step 5 is the cumulative one - counting all 
steps, but you want details PER step.

>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.

What is your DDCONS and INTERVAL setting?

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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