Release Notes

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

Printing Support

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

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.
Fix out of memory error after loading many records from a single file (seen after approximately 8 million records)
Fix problems with exporting and importing large amounts of data (compression ratio is also improved).
Allow the timeout value to be changed for FTP transfers, to allow for time for tape positioning etc.
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:
- 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

Fix crash creating type 72 reports.

Version: 0.9.1 - January 29, 2009

Initial Release