Displaying information about the active configuration

To display information about the currently active configuration, issue the following command:

D SMS,ACTIVE or D SMS

where D is an abbreviation for DISPLAY. (The default for the DISPLAY command is to display the active configuration when no options are specified.) An example of the generated output appears in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Displaying Information about the Active Configuration

      09.23.36          IGD002I 09:23:36 DISPLAY SMS 401

      SCDS = SMS.SCDS1.SCDS
      ACDS = SMS.ACDS1.ACDS
      COMMDS = SMS.COMMDS1.COMMDS
      DINTERVAL = 150
      REVERIFY = NO
      ACSDEFAULTS = NO
          SYSTEM     CONFIGURATION LEVEL    INTERVAL SECONDS
          SYSTEM01   2004/12/01 09:23:29           15
          SYSTEM02   ---------- --------          N/A
          SYSTEM03   ---------- --------          N/A
          SYSTEM04   ---------- --------          N/A
          SYSTEM05   ---------- --------          N/A
          SYSTEM06   ---------- --------          N/A
          SYSTEM07   ---------- --------          N/A
          SYSTEM08   ---------- --------          N/A

The display shows the names of the current control data sets. The naming convention used here specifies a first level qualifier of SMS for all SMS control data sets. The second level qualifier identifies the type of SMS data set. The third level qualifier uniquely identifies the data set.

The DINTERVAL, REVERIFY ACSDEFAULTS, and OVRD_EXPDT fields contain the values given them when SMS was initialized. For an explanation of these values, see z/OS MVS Initialization and Tuning Guide

The last portion of the output shows configuration levels about the system from which you issued the DISPLAY command. The configuration level indicates the date and time the ACDS was last updated. This last portion also contains the synchronization time interval (the number of seconds that SMS allows before this system checks the COMMDS for news from other systems in the SMS complex) for each system. The synchronization time interval can be changed using the SET SMS command.