Welcome to the z/OS Performance Instrumentation Management Techniques wiki.

This is a collaborative space where people (IBMers, consultants, vendors and customers alike) can contribute their experience.

Though primarily a wiki about SMF data management other System-provided instrumentation may be worth including.

To Contribute

This wiki requires a developerWorks screenname and for that screenname to be authorised to edit.

(Obtaining a screenname is beyond the scope of this document. Presumably somewhere near where it invites you to sign in there is an option to apply for a screenname.)

Once you have a screenname send an email to Martin Packer giving your screenname. He'll then authorise you and you'll be able to edit the wiki.

Let's keep it clean and non-contentious. For example, as this is an IBM-sponsored wiki it would be inappropriate for adverts for other companies' products to appear here. (It would, however, be OK to briefly mention another company's product - for completeness.) 

Contents

Here's a list of all pages in the wiki.

• A List Of Things To Work On
• Editors
• Shouldn't Systems Be Self-Documenting?
• SMF
  • Controlling SMF Record Production
  • IFASMFDL & SMF via Logger Enhancements
  • Reporting On SMF Data
  • SMF Data Set Configuration and Management
  • SMF Dump Program - IFASMFDP
  • SMF System Logger Dump Program - IFASMFDL
  • Using DFSORT to Copy Subsets of SMF Data Sets
  • Using System Logger To Write SMF Records

External Links

• Wikipedia SMF Page