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MQ 10 for z/OS has additional fields in its SMF data. While useful, they brought challenges to the mqsmfcsv program that a number of people use for formatting and then analysing MQ SMF records.
This post was last updated on July 1st, 2026 at 08:41 am
One tool I created a few years ago deals with formatting SMF records from z/OS. I designed it to take MQ’s 115 and 116 records and generate output that users could import to spreadsheets and SQL databases. I made a video about the original version of the tool here, and I wrote about more enhancements to that tool in this post.
If you want to know more about how to use the data after formatting, then Lyn had a lot of posts at her site talking about analyses she has run and lessons she has learned. (That site is currently offline, but a lot of the posts have been recovered by Morag and posted here.)
Most recently I’ve added (with help) some formatting options to deal with a couple of additional record types. That work showed how non-standardised SMF records are, and how much manual work is needed to create formatters. This post will talk about how something that supposedly has a common format does not really.
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