On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:10:15 -0600, Ed Gould wrote:
>
>Interesting thing about SMF...
>For 20 years IBM documented SMF records in one consolidated place the
>SMF manual.
>In the last 5 or so years IBM did an about face and started to
>scatter them around in unlikely  places WHY??????????????????
> 
My guess would be that the specification of the formats of SMF records
is owned not by SMF, but by the various utilities that generate them.
As such, it would be onerous, untimely, perhaps even error-prone for
each utility that adds a new SMF record type to require an update of
a central SMF data areas manual section.

-- gil

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