IBM’s DFSORT team has devoted time and effort to develop sets of DFSORT data source symbols that describe record-layouts for DCOLLECT, RACF, RMM, and others. With these symbol definitions, sites can develop comprehensive management reporting processes for the listed data sources. For example, with DCOLLECT, a detail or…

Sometimes SMF data is not cut off exactly at midnight and you may only want a subset of LPARs in the input file for all of yesterday’s data. Here is a DFSORT SMF data subset/sort example to filter only SMF type 70 through 79 records for the previous day…