The Resource Measurement Facility™ (RMF™) is a performance management tool that measures selected areas of system activity and presents the data collected in the form of System Management Facility (SMF) records, formatted printed reports, or formatted display reports. You can use this data to evaluate system performance and identify reasons for performance problems.
This document contains information and reference material to enable you to use RMF data for application programming. There is a number of different ways of getting at different kinds of information, and each one is described in a separate chapter of this document.
Further processing of RMF report data can also be done using spreadsheets. The Spreadsheet Reporter is described in the z/OS RMF User's Guide.
In addition, this document is describing diagnosis procedures that can be used in case of an error when running RMF.
Who should read this information
This document is intended for use by system programmers responsible for the development of individual, installation-specific applications in the area of system measurement. Because RMF is a tool for measuring MVS™ system performance, this document assumes that the reader has extensive knowledge of the MVS system.
For an overview of RMF, and guidance on using the standard capabilities of the product, see the z/OS RMF User's Guide.
The z/OS RMF library
This table shows the full titles and order numbers of the books in the RMF library for z/OS.
| Title | Order Number |
|---|---|
| Books available as Hardcopy and Softcopy | |
| z/OS z/OS RMF User's Guide | SC34-2664 |
| z/OS z/OS RMF Report Analysis | SC34-2665 |
| z/OS z/OS RMF Messages and Codes | SC34-2666 |
| z/OS z/OS RMF Programmer's Guide | SC34-2667 |
| z/OS z/OS RMF Reference Summary | SX33-9034 |
| Softcopy documentation as part of the z/OS Collection (SK3T-4269 (CD-Rom) and SK3T-4271 (DVD)) | |
Related information
For additional information on z/OS, see the z/OS Information Roadmap, SA23-2299.