Sysplex data services for SMF data

RMF™ or other products store SMF data in a wrap-around buffer. You can choose to create a RMF Sysplex Data Server's SMF buffer when you start RMF. The size of the buffer and the types of SMF records stored in it can be specified as an RMF startup parameter. The RMF sysplex data services return SMF data when the RMF Sysplex Data Server's SMF buffer exists on at least one system in the sysplex, which need not be the system on which the calling program is running. The Data Server returns data only from systems in which data buffers have been created.