When supplied with a list of job names associated with an aggregate
group (that is, a group of applications, an application, or a subset
of an application) the ABA program scans system management facilities
(SMF) records that have been collected over a period of time. ABA
extracts the names of data sets that have been opened by the jobs
on the supplied list. ABA then produces a list of those data set names
in the form of a selection data set.
Note: The input SMF
records must be collected for a sufficient period of time to capture
the processing of all of the applications in the aggregate group.
To shorten ABA’s run time, the IFASMFDP utility program may
be used before ABA is run to extract the necessary types of SMF records
from an installation’s SMF data set. See Input requirements.