Examples of calculating the amount of data of the output SMF records

Mainframe Analytics Recorder User Guide

Version
10.1.x
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anonymous
Part Number
MK-92HC226-08
ft:lastEdition
2026-01-30
This section provides examples of calculating the amount of data of the output SMF records.

The storage configuration shown in the following table is used to explain how to calculate the amount of data of the SMF records that are output by MAR.

Table. Storage configuration example

Component

Quantity

MPU

4 (Number of MPs per MPU: 8)

CLPR

1 (For CLPR0 only)

Parity group

3

Port

8 (Active port with MF Target attribute)

LDEV

1,024 (Number of control units: 4; number of LDEVs per control unit: 256)

The following table shows the amount of data of the SMF records that are output for each interval.

Table. The amount of data output per interval

Record (subtype)

Size per record (in bytes)

Number of records per interval

Amount of data per interval (in bytes)

LDEV (subtype 2)

30,808

4

123,232

MPU (subtype 3)

280

4

1,120

PGRP (subtype 4)

352

1

352

PORT (subtype 5)

728

1

728

MPRANK20 (subtype 6)

5,336

1

5,336

Sum of the above

130,768

The amount of data of the SMF records to be output for each interval is 130,768 bytes (approximately 128 KB).

Tip: The amount of data calculated here is the amount of data of the SMF records that are output. This value is different from the value of the required disk space for the actual dataset.

Assuming that the amount of output data per interval is 128 KB, the amount of data of the SMF records output in each period when the interval is 15 minutes is calculated as shown in the following table.

Table. The amount of data of the SMF records output per period (interval: 15 minutes)

Period

Number of intervals per period

Amount of data

One hour

4

512 KB

One day

96

12 MB

One week

672

84 MB

One month

2,880

360 MB