In my experience 42 is more "event" based than "end of job" based but that does not change the correctness of your fundamental point.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Betten Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 11:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DFSORT and SMF I agree with Martin about Type 42. At the end of a recording interval, only one record is cut for each job and then there are multiple data set headers with each one containing an offset to the next. So that would be very difficult to process without some sore of E15 exit to break those up and pass as separate records to sort. Type 14/15 have somewhat fixed offsets for the basic info. But once you get into the extended segment sections, you again would need some sort of E15 to process them one at a time. I use DFSORT quite a bit for processing SMF but almost always with E15 and E35 exits to process the records before and after. Once I've created a file where the data fields are in fixed positions, then something like ICETOOL can be used to generate reports. I'd have to say, unless you want to get in the game of maintaining code as the records change with each release, you are better off using one of the products that's out there for SMF reporting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
