Supported SMF Records
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The SMF records types below are transformed into metrics and/or traces.
Additional SMF records are added during ongoing development to provide mainframe application observability.
Contact ziris@mainstorconcept.com to inquire on the status of SMF records that your organizations are interested in leveraging for performance observability as well as other monitoring use cases.
SMF record type | Description |
|---|---|
30 (1-6) | Common Address Space Work records used to create z/OS Work Traces for partner APM ISVs. See z/OS Work observability to find out how z/IRIS processes SMF 30 records into APM traces for batch job observability. |
70 | Mainframe processor utilization. See z/IRIS RMF Metrics streaming to find out how z/IRIS processes RMF records into real-time metrics for open-source mainframe monitoring. |
101 | Db2 for z/OS accounting records. See Distributed Db2 for z/OS Observability for more details. |
102 | Db2 for z/OS performance records. See Distributed Db2 trace streaming for APM integration for more details. |
110 | CICS Transaction Server Monitoring Records. See CICS transaction Observability for to discover CICS APM traces. |
115 (1, 2, 215 and 231) | z/OS MQ statistic records. See z/OS MQ Metrics for more details about Queue Manager metrics for z/OS. |
116 (1 and 2) | z/OS MQ task accounting records. See MQ for z/OS Spans to discover MQ APM traces. |
123 version 1 and 2 | z/OS Connect auditInterceptor records. See z/OS Connect observability support to find out how z/IRIS processes SMF type 123 records into APM spans. Additionally, z/IRIS creates Metrics for open-source monitoring. |