Customizing the collection of measurements for Control-M Configuration Manager

For instructions of how to generate a usage measurement report for Control-M for z/OS, see Control-M diagnostics > Generating diagnostic data in the Control-M Administrator Guide.

Beginning with z/OS® V1R12|(and z/OS V1R11 and z/OS V1R10 with the PTFs for APAR|OA29894 applied), the system administrator must register the CTWRSMF program (supplied by BMC, in the LOAD library, for use as a user exit for IFASMFDP) on the system according to the IBM instructions provided in the z/OS MVS Initialization and Tuning Reference, in the description of SMFPRMxx (SMF parameters).

A job skeleton is provided in the CTMJSMF member of the CTM JCL library.

The usage measurements are stored in a file, allocated by the DACSV DD statement. The user can change any of the parameters in this DD statement, including the dataset name (DSN). To make sure that the names for new datasets are unique, use the special %%DATE and %%TIME parameters (reserved for DACSV dataset names), where %%DATE specifies the current date and %%TIME specifies the current time.

For example, the original dataset name is as follows:

%OLPREFM%.CSV.D%%Date.T%%Time

where %%OLPREFM%% is the prefix library.

There is no need to define input datasets for the job, since by default all active system SMF datasets are being used as input. To increase the time period for data retrieval, any number of archived SMF datasets can be added to the job skeleton. The user can include additional archived SMF files by adding a separate DD statement for each SMF file as follows:

To process these additional archived datasets, the corresponding input (SYSIN) statements must be added to the job skeleton as follows: