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Status Not under consideration
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 28, 2023

Create a single SMF field that represents the primary wait reason.

There are over 500 fields in the current SMF 110 (1) record.   We have started sending these to Splunk, but had to whittle the number of fields down to about 20 considering we process up to 2 billion SMF records per day.  There are so many different reasons that a CICS task could be waiting and sending each of those fields to Splunk would cost heavily.  Can CICS determine which of the wait reasons is the most significant and then send just two fields - one that describes the original wait field and another that contains the wait time?  

Idea priority Medium
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    Dec 8, 2023
    CICS Development: Closing this Idea with agreement from the customer.