If you intend to write your own program to analyze the
journaling records that are written to an SMF data set, you will need
to know the format of the data.
The three components of the journaling record are an SMF
block header, a CICS® product section, and a CICS data
section. The layout of an MVS SMF log, showing log blocks and CICS sections,
is in Figure 1. Figure 1. Layout
of a CICS log written to MVS SMF
Journal records written to SMF can be read offline by
user-written programs. Such programs can map journal records by including
an INCLUDE DFHLGMSD statement. This generates the assembler version
of the DSECT.
