The environment is IBM virtual tape and we write a new each time.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 1:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SMF dump processing On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 12:09:49 -0500, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote: >On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:02:07 +0000, Lopez, Sharon <[email protected]> wrote: > >>We have noticed that our dumping for SMF MAN files are taking longer than >>usual. We see in the job log that when message IEC205I is issued, which >>shows the total blocks written, that sometimes it takes as long as 15 minutes >>for message IEF234E K to occur. Has anyone else encountered this or could >>explain to me why it takes 15 minutes for the IEF234E K message to occur? >> >>We realize that we need to get to logger but unfortunately it hasn't happened >>yet. >> >>Thanks in advance for all of your help. >> > >Does it run as an STC? Is the system busier than it used to be? What >is the goal of the service class it runs in? > >I support some very large systems and sysplexes. I'm talking LPARs with >over 200G of real storage, lots of CICS, DB2, WebSphere etc. etc. We >still haven't converted to logger for SMF and we don't normally have >any problems keeping up with SMF dumps. Our SMFDUMP STC runs in a >service class with importance 2. There have been a few times were >someone leaves a DB2 accounting trace left on and the dumps have >trouble keeping up and I've changed them to SYSSTC until we can track >down the bone head that left the trace on. :-) > Sorry, I didn't read your question carefully. You're problem sounds related to either the tape management system or the tape environment itself. Is it virtual? Physical? IBM, Oracle, EMC? Do you ever mod onto an existing data set or it is "new" each time? Many more details are needed. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ________________________________ Email correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an authorized state official. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
