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  • 1.  CA Spool new SMF Utility

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Apr 27, 2020 02:41 PM
    Hello CA Spool community!

    CA Spool creates SMF data to record all major events and Spool operations. It is becoming more difficult to work with SMF from a skillset perspective; new administrators don't know how to work with SMF. And an integration perspective; it's hard for non-mainframe apps to consume SMF.

    This new utility will enable users to read SMF data (subtype 11, subtype 12, and SMF type 6) and create a comma-separated value (CSV) output file.  This file can then be imported into Microsoft Excel for analysis or to a business process such as a chargeback system.

    This new feature requires the following PTFs to be applied: SO12826, and SO12579. To read more about this new enhancement click here.

    Best regards,
    Ed Blazejewski

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    Product Manager Output Management
    Broadcom
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