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July 31, 2010:
Version 1.1 sends data straight to Excel
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June 02, 2010:
Version 1.0 released
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Release Notes
Version: 1.1.1 - August 09, 2010
- Fix error introduced in 1.1.0 where sections for type 70 records were not retrieved if PR/SM sections were not present - typically systems running under VM.
- Ignore times with negative values for CPU usage by LPAR report.
Version: 1.1.0 - July 30, 2010
- Add function to send data from all tabular reports directly to Excel.
- Add reports for all sections of SMF type 30 and type 70 records.
- Fix a problem trying to change the data system for the CPU Consumption by LPAR report after selecting a system in another report.
Version: 1.0.1 - June 14, 2010
- When switching to the CPU usage by LPAR report, include all LPARS in the chart by default, not just the system you have been working with.
- Fix a problem where the values in the CPU usage by LPAR report were incorrect if duplicate records were included.
- Fix a problem where the settings for the current report were not saved when the application was closed.
Version: 1.0.0 - June 02, 2010
- Add "Check for Updates" function to Help menu.
- Reset evaluation period so that previous users get a new evaluation period.
- Fix a bug where zIIPs and zAAPs are reported with CPs in the MVS CPU busy reports.
- Fix a problem where the window warning that the license had expired could be hidden behind the main window if you switched away from the application while a report loaded.
Version: 0.9.12 - April 20, 2010
- Allow Catalog and Select Data dialogs to be closed with Escape key.
- Improve the Load Data dialogs to reduce the number of steps required.
- Confirm before closing EasySMF if loading data is in progress.
- Modify Job Details report to incorporate information from all type 30 subtypes so that the report can show system tasks and incomplete jobs, rather than only completed jobs.
- Correct a KeyNotFound error in the System CPU Busy report if a CPU type is selected and there are no PR/SM Logical Processor Data sections for that CPU type e.g. under VM.
- Fix a crash when type 30 subtype 4 record(s) exist for a step, but no Completion section is found.
- Fix a crash if the displayed report was scrolled while another report was loading.
- Fix the error: 417: Expectation Failed when trying to submit a crash report through some proxies.
- Fix a crash if no data is found for the job specified in the Job Details report.
- Fix a bug where displayed report parameters could get out of sync with the report when using the Back and Forward buttons.
- Fixed a crash if EasySMF was closed while a report was loading.
- Fix missing system ID in SMF Data Lost report.
- Fix incorrect start time in SMF Data Lost report.
- Correct a bug where the day of the month was calculated incorrectly when moving backwards and forwards by month.
- Change the end of the time range to be an even minute instead of 23:59:59.99... etc. so that an accurate end time can be entered manually.
- Fix a crash if loading of the Service by Program Name report is interrupted.
Version: 0.9.11 - December 14, 2009
- Perform DD consolidation for EXCP sections in the Job Detail report. Report how many DD sections were consolidated for each entry.
- Report how many type 30 records were found for each job during the interval in the Job Status During Interval report.
- Change the export to CSV function to use a culture-specific separator character, so that it works correctly for cultures that use the comma as the decimal point.
Version: 0.9.10 - November 17, 2009
Version: 0.9.9 - September 21, 2009
- Add READTAPEFORMAT=S to FTP SITE commands to so that VBS format tapes are loaded correctly.
- Allow SITE commands used for the file transfer to be modified.
Version: 0.9.8 - September 03, 2009
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Add diagnostics and more informative error messages for various problems with the input data (missing RDW etc.)
- Allow data to be exported uncompressed, for faster processing where disk space doesn't need to be conserved.
- Fix error exporting Dataset Activity report to CSV format.
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Fix out of memory error after loading many records from a single file (seen after approximately 8 million records)
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Fix problems with exporting and importing large amounts of data (compression ratio is also improved).
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Allow the timeout value to be changed for FTP transfers, to allow for time for tape positioning etc.
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Change the CPU usage by LPAR report to display a percentage, if the SMF records contain the number of physical CPUs.
Version: 0.9.7 - April 27, 2009
- Combined "RMF Service by Service Class" and "RMF Service by Service Class Summary" reports into a single report with multiple tabs and added a tab page with the data in tabular form. Also for RMF Service by Report Class reports.
- Added tab pages with the data in tabular format to the other Service by... reports.
- Add ability to export data in CSV format to all tabular reports, for importing into Excel etc.
- Fixed a bug extracting job accounting information from type 30 records.
- Add job accounting fields to Job Completions report.
Version: 0.9.6 - February 17, 2009
- Add support for files downloaded using RECFM=U e.g. for use with SAS. These files include the BDW as well as the RDW.
- Correct problem with EXCP count values. Field SMF30TEX seems to sometimes be present but invalid, so only use it when SMF30TEP is flagged as invalid.
Version: 0.9.5 - February 12, 2009
- Improve time range selection logic:
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- Set initial start/end times to a time period with data if possible.
- Set the "All" time period to the earliest and latest SMF record times. (If there is a long time between earliest and latest SMF records, you probably don't want to use the "All" time range.)
- Update the "All" time period when data is loaded.
Version: 0.9.4 - February 06, 2009
- Fix index out of range crash when loading records.
Version: 0.9.2 - February 05, 2009
Version: 0.9.1 - January 29, 2009