SMF records

Table 1 , Table 2, and Table 3 list the new and updated SMF records. See z/OS MVS System Management Facilities (SMF) for more detailed information.

New and changed RMF SMF records for z/OS V2R2

Table 1. Summary of new and changed RMF SMF records for z/OS V2R2
SMF record Description
Type 70 (RMF™ Processor Activity) Multiple updates to Subtype 1:
  • Start of changeNew: SMF70HWGr_Name added by APAR OA48688 to PR/SM Partition Data section to specify the name of the hardware group to which the partition belongs.End of change
  • Start of changeChanged: SMF70VPF updated by APAR OA48688 in PR/SM Logical Processor Data section to change bit 7 to indicate SMF70HWGr_Name or SMF70HWGr_Cap_Limit has changed during the interval.End of change
  • Start of changeNew: SMF70HWGr_Cap_Limit added by APAR OA48688 to PR/SM Logical Processor Data section to specify absolute limit on partition usage of all CPUs of the type indicated in SMF70CIX that are members of the same hardware group.End of change
  • Start of changeChanged: SMF70HHF updated by APAR OA48688 in CPU Control section to change bit 4 to indicate Absolute MSU capping is active for this partition.End of change
  • Start of changeNew: SMF70LACM, SMF70LACA, and SMF70LACB added by APAR OA48466 to CPU Control section to indicate long-term average of CPU service (millions of service units) consumed by transactions classified with reporting attribute MOBILE, CATEGORYA, or CATEGORYB, respectively.End of change
Type 71 (RMF Paging Activity)
  • New fields in Paging Data Section to support Shared Pageable Large Pages
Type 72 (RMF Workload Activity, Storage Data, and Serialization Delay)
  • Start of changeNew fields added by APAR OA48466 for Subtype 3 (Workload Activity) in Service/Report Class Period Data Section to add Transaction Resource Consumption Data.End of change
Type 73 (RMF Channel Path Activity)
  • Start of changeNew physical-network identifier (PNET ID) fields SMF73NT1 and SMF73NT2 are added by APAR OA49113.End of change
  • Start of changeChanged: SMF73FG4 updated APAR OA49113 to change bit 7 to indicate that physical-network identifiers SMF73NT1 and SMF73NT2 are valid.End of change
Type 74 (RMF Activity of Several Resources)
  • Subtype 1: Changes to support devices in alternate subchannel sets
  • Subtype 1:
    • Changes to support devices in alternate subchannel sets
    • Start of changeChanges by APAR OA49415 to Device Data Section to support SuperPAV measurements.End of change
  • Subtype 4: New field in Request Data Section
  • Subtype 4:
    • New field added by APAR OA45421 in Request Data Section
    • The Channel Path data section is updated by Start of changeAPAR OA49148 to add information about sender and receiver Channel Path data sections for remote coupling facilities.End of change
    • Start of changeA new Asynchronous CF Duplexing data section is added by APAR OA49148.End of change
    • The individual header extension for subtype 4 is updated by APAR OA49148 with new fields SMF744AO, SMF744AL, and SMF744AN.
  • Subtype 5: New fields in Cache Control Section
  • Subtype 8: New bit and field in Rank Statistics Data Section
  • Start of changeSubtype 9 updated by APAR OA49113:
    • New fields R749FLAG, R749NET1, and R749NET2 in PCIE Function Data Section for physical-network identifiers (PNET IDs).
    • New information provided for format x'03' in PCIE Function Type Data Section.
    End of change
  • Subtype 10: New subtype 10 for Storage Class Memory (SCM) Statistics
Type 78 (RMF Virtual Storage and I/O Queuing Activity) Subtype 2: New field in Virtual Storage Private Area Data Section to support Shared Pageable Large Pages
  • Start of changeSubtype 2: New field in Virtual Storage Private Area Data Section to support Shared Pageable Large Pages.End of change
  • Start of changeSubtype 3: Updates by APAR OA49415 to I/O Queuing Global Section, I/O Queuing Configuration Control Section, I/O Queuing Data section and HyperPAV/SuperPAV Data Section to support SuperPAV measurements.End of change

New and changed RMF SMF records for z/OS V2R1

Table 2. Summary of new and changed RMF SMF records for z/OS V2R1
SMF record Description
Type 70 (RMF Processor Activity) Multiple updates:
  • Subtype 1: New Logical Core data section; also changes to the CPU control section, CPU data section, ASID Data Area Section, PR/SM Partition Data Section, and PR/SM Logical Processor Data Section.
    Reason for change: APAR OA44101
  • Subtype 1: Changes in the CPU data section to support group capacity enhancements and absolute LPAR, and to support warning-track interruption
    Reason for change: Release update
  • Subtype 2: Changes to the Cryptographic CCA Coprocessor and Cryptographic Accelerator data sections
    Reason for change: Release update
  • Subtype 2: Changes to the Cryptographic CCA Coprocessor, Cryptographic Accelerator, and Cryptographic PKCS11 Coprocessor data sections.
    Reason for change: APAR OA43493
Type 71 (RMF Paging Activity) Multiple updates:
  • New fields to support 4 TB real storage
    Reason for change: APAR OA44503
  • New field in Paging Data Section
    Reason for change: APAR OA44101
  • Changes to support pageable large pages activity
    Reason for change: Release update
Type 72 (RMF Workload Activity and Storage Data) Multiple updates:
  • Subtype 3: Changes to support I/O priority groups
    Reason for change: Release update
  • Subtype 3: Changes to Workload Manager Control Data Section
    Reason for change: APAR OA44101
  • Subtype 5: New GRS QScan Statistics data section added to monitor QScan requests
    Reason for change: Release update
Type 74 (RMF Activity of Several Resources) Multiple updates:
  • Subtype 1: Changes to support devices in alternate subchannel sets
    Reason for change: Release update
  • Subtype 4: Changes to existing data sections and addition of the new Storage Class Memory data section to support exploitation of the Flash Express feature; changes to support THIN interrupts
    Reason for change: Release update
  • Subtype 4: Changes to existing data sections to support CS5 path operating at 8x bandwidth using the PCIe third generation protocol, adapter type PCIe-O.
    Reason for change: APAR OA44502
  • Subtype 5: New fields in the RAID Rank/Extent Pool data section
    Reason for change: Release update
  • Subtype 9: New subtype for PCI Express Based Function Activity
    Reason for change: Release update
  • Subtype 9: Changes to existing data sections to support PCIE enhancements.
    Reason for change: APAR OA44524
Type 75 (RMF Page Data Set Activity) Multiple updates:
  • New field to support 4 TB real storage
    Reason for change: APAR OA44503
  • One changed field: a bitmap record is changed to indicate page space type storage-class memory (SCM).
    Reason for change: Release update
Type 78 (RMF Virtual Storage and I/O Queuing Activity) Multiple updates:
  • Subtype 2: the virtual storage private area data section is extended.
    Reason for change: Release update
  • Subtype 3: the I/O Queuing configuration data section and I/O Queuing data section are extended.
    Reason for change: APAR OA44525
Type 79 (RMF Monitor II Activity) Multiple updates:
  • Subtype 1: Changes to support I/O priority groups
    Reason for change: Release update
  • Subtype 2: Changes to support I/O priority groups
    Reason for change: Release update
  • Subtype 9: Changes to support devices in alternate subchannel sets and changes to support the interrupt delay time facility
    Reason for change: Release update
  • Subtype 11: a bitmap record has been changed to indicate page space type storage-class memory (SCM).
    Reason for change: Release update
  • Subtype 14: the I/O Queuing configuration data section and I/O Queuing data section are extended.
    Reason for change: APAR OA44525
Type 104 (RMF Distributed Platform Performance Data) New SMF record type: Support of long-term performance analysis and capacity planning of AIX, Linux, and Windows systems.
Reason for change: Release update

New and changed RMF SMF records for z/OS V1R13

Table 3. Summary of new and changed RMF SMF records for z/OS V1R13
SMF record Description
Type 71 (RMF Paging Activity) Multiple updates:
  • no more data is collected for the swap placement section
    Reason for change: Release update
  • New fields have been added to support storage-class memory (SCM) and pageable large pages.
    Reason for change: Release update
Type 72 (RMF Workload Activity and Storage Data) Multiple updates:
  • Subtype 3 has been extended to collect:
    • CPU time used by work units while promoted by the z/OS supervisor (report class period data section)
    • response-time distribution data for service and report class periods that have defined execution velocity goals (response time distribution data section).
    Reason for change: Release update
  • New Subtype 5 introduced to support serialization delay measurements.
    Reason for change: Release update
Type 75 (RMF Page Data Set Activity) One changed field: a bitmap record is changed to indicate page space type storage-class memory (SCM).
Reason for change: Release update
Type 79 (RMF Monitor II Activity) One changed field: a bitmap record is changed to indicate page space type storage-class memory (SCM).
Reason for change: Release update