Header/Self-defining Section

This section contains the common SMF record headers fields and the triplet fields (offset/length/number), if applicable, that locate the other sections on the record.

Offsets Name Length Format Description
0 0 TDDRLEN 2 binary Record length. This field and the next field (total of four bytes) form the RDW (record descriptor word). See Standard SMF record header for a detailed description.
2 2 TDDRSEG 2 binary Segment descriptor (see record length field).
4 4 TDDRFLG 1 binary System indicator:
Bit
Meaning when set
0-2
Reserved
3-6
Version indicators*
7
Reserved.

*See Standard SMF record header for a detailed description.

5 5 TDDRCDTY 1 binary Record type 40 (X'28').
6 6 TDDRCDTS 4 binary Time since midnight, in hundredths of a second, that the record was moved into the SMF buffer.
10 A TDDRCDTE 4 packed Date when the record was moved into the SMF buffer, in the form 0cyydddF. See Standard SMF record header for a detailed description.
14 E TDDCPUID 4 EBCDIC System identification (from the SID parameter).
18 12 TDDUIF 8 EBCDIC Job name.
26 1A TDDONTME 4 binary Logon time, in hundredths of a second. (If a background job, this field contains the time the reader recognized the JOB card.)
30 1E TDDONDTE 4 packed Logon date, in the form 0cyydddF. See Standard SMF record header for a detailed description. (If a background job, this field contains the date the reader recognized the JOB card.)
34 22 TDDUDATA 8 EBCDIC User-defined identification field (taken from common exit parameter area, not from USER=parameter on job statement).
42 2A TDDINVSQ 1 binary Step number (first step = 1, etc).
43 2B TDDFLG 1 binary Functional indicator
Value
Meaning
2
Unallocation
3
Concatenation
4
Deconcatenation.
44 2C TDDRIN 2 binary Record indicator
Bit
Meaning when set
0-6
Reserved
7
EXCP count may be wrong
8-15
Reserved.
46 2E TDDRCIND 2 binary Index of record in sequence of records.
Note: In releases prior to 4.2.2, this field is zero.
48 30 TDDRCTOT 2 binary Total number of records in sequence of records.
Note: In releases prior to 4.2.2, this field is zero.
50 32 TDDRVA 14   Reserved.
64 40 TDDVAR 2 binary Length of device entry portion of this record. Calculated as: (8 times the number of devices) + 2.