II11069: SMFRTEST RETURN CODE NOT CORRECT FOR SOME PRODUCTS

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Error description

• As described in Chapter 5 of the System Management Facilities
  (SMF) manual, macro SMFRTEST can be used to determine if a
  particular type of SMF record is being recorded.  If a record
  type is not being collected, SMFRTEST should return with a
  return code of decimal 36 (hexidecimal 24).
       Some OEM products that front-end the SMF macro router
  IEEMB838 do not follow this convention.  Even though the
  particular record type is not being recorded, SMFRTEST ends
  with a return code of 0.
       Computer Associates has acknowledged this problem and
  gave the following information to a customer:
  .
     CA frontends IEEMB838 and ALWAYS gives a return code of
     zero to callers of SMFRTEST for record types less than
     or equal to 90, except for 19 and 38, which give the
     proper return code based on the actual recording status
     of the SMF record.
  .
       To see if IEEMB838 is being front-ended, use the IPCS
  command 'L 10?+C4?+7C?' to look at storage.  This will point
  to IEEMB838 if there is no front-ending code.  If it points
  to #CAS9 or EBCSMFEP, then SMFRTEST will end with return code
  zero even though the record is not being recorded.
       APAR II02887 contains additional information on this
  topic.
  ADDITIONAL SEARCH KEYWORDS: RC0 RC00 RC24 RC36
  

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