System Management Facility (SMF) support

The System Management Facility (SMF) is used to collect and record system and job related information that can be used for billing, analyzing, scheduling, etc. More information can be found in the SMF Knowledge Center.

DBB has the capability to write SMF records when running a script that uses DBB functionality. When the capability is enabled, DBB writes an SMF record once per execution of a script when either an MVSExec, TSOExec, JCLExec, or ISPFExec is called. The SMF records can be queried to find out who is using DBB and the frequency. See SMF record for more information.

To enable the capability to write SMF records, set DBB_SMFWRITE_ENABLED to true as a system property when starting the build script:

-DDBB_SMFWRITE_ENABLED=true