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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 10:02:18 -0500
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- From: "Roy Watson" <RWATSON@BCSC02.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: IFASMFDP Question
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- Mott Given asked:
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- >I am using the IBM's IFASMFDP program to dump selected SMF record types from
- >round tapes to cartridges. The SMF records are for a system of ours at
- >another site running MVS/SP. When I used the SMF records dumped onto the
- >cartridge as input to a capacity planning software product from BGS Systems
- >called CAPTURE/MVS, I get error messages saying that some of the SMF records
- >read were in MVS/XA format. Is it posssible that the IFASMFDP program
- >reformatted some of the SMF records, or it is more likely that there is
- >something wrong with the way that the other site is collecting their SMF
- >records?
-
- >By the way, our current system, on which I am running the IFASMFDP program,
- >is running MVS/XA. Do I need an earlier version of the program to properly
- >dump the MVS/SP records?
-
- I wonder if the CAPTURE/MVS program is complaining about the SMF record
- types 2 and 3 that IFASMFDP always writes at the beginning and end of the
- DUMPOUT dataset. I do not believe that IFASMFDP "edits" the records.
-
- * * *
- Regards,
- ROY WATSON (604) 389-3747 RWATSON@BCSC02
- MVS SUPPORT - BC SYSTEMS CORPORATION, VICTORIA BC
-