Knowing the length of a section MIGHT be interesting, even if there are none of them. As it might indicate maintenance level (occasionally).
To be fair, I’d put it in the category of “interesting” but not necessarily “useful”. :-) Cheers, Martin Sent from my iPad > On 6 Nov 2017, at 22:43, Barry Merrill <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is documented for many newer SMF records that the COUNT field is the > sole indicator that there are in fact these segments in this record. > The OFFSET seems always to be busy, and the value of the location of > the next triplet, even when this is the last triplet. > > As noted, the Length value of zero is now used to indicate that the > actual length is in the first two bytes at the offsed, if COUNT is > non-zero. > > Barry > > > Merrilly yours, > > Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD > President-Programmer > Merrill Consultants > MXG Software > 10717 Cromwell Drive technical questions: [email protected] > Dallas, TX 75229 > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mxg.com&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=BsPGKdq7-Vl8MW2-WOWZjlZ0NwmcFSpQCLphNznBSDQ&m=iZuqNF3254ztNCrcdxK6gfQ5Iptbpeu3E3usulPRmChPA&s=Zf3L5YjVZ8H5zutL_KUf33-JuZKXrcPS6pFOYJSo5DI&e= > admin questions: [email protected] > tel: 214 351 1966 > fax: 214 350 3694 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of DanD > Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 2:33 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Odd SMF 30 data within IEFACTRT > > Thanks everyone. > > I WILL check all 3 fields for zeros in the future. > It's still odd that the 1st record has an offset and length but the count is > zeros... > > "Here's the section your looking for ... it's this big ... and there are > NONE" what? ;-) > > Dan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
