Re: [EXTERNAL] Collecting SMF data with Logstreams

2021-02-10 Thread Colin Paice
An advantage of log streams is that you can set up a log stream so type1 goes to one log stream and type2 goes to another log stream. If type1 produces too much data type2 is not affected. If you log to disk you process the data set to extract/process the type1 and type2 records. If type1 produce

Re: [EXTERNAL] Collecting SMF data with Logstreams

2021-02-10 Thread Ron Burg
Thank you Gadi and Jim, For us, using DASD-only logstream is the preferred way and I already set it up on a test system and played with it a little bit. I set up a RETPD of 10 days. this works fine and I understand that this is the prefered way and not period of years, I just wanted to check the

Re: [EXTERNAL] Collecting SMF data with Logstreams

2021-02-10 Thread Horne, Jim
Ron, You definitely want to go to logstreams. We went to CF logstreams 10 years ago and have never regretted it. And that is the first question you need to answer: coupling facility, which is sysplex-wide, or DASD-only? That will affect all your other decisions. The next thing you need to d